Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageThen Isaiah said, 'Bring a poultice of pressed figs.' So they brought it and laid it on the festering sore, and he recovered.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GThen Yesha'yahu said, 'Take a cake of pressed figs.' So they took it and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
KJV
King James VersionAnd Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThen Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.
Footnotes
*Develet te'enim* — a pressed fig cake — was a known ancient Near Eastern medicinal remedy; Pliny the Elder and Ugaritic texts both reference fig poultices for inflammations. The *shechin* (boil/ulcer) was potentially septic and life-threatening. Theologically, the miraculous healing is mediated through natural means — YHWH does not disdain physical remedies, nor are medicine and miracle in opposition. FOG uses 'cake of pressed figs' to preserve the material texture; FOG Message's 'poultice' foregrounds the medicinal function.