Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageThen Isaiah said, 'Let them take a cake of pressed figs and apply it to the infected sore, and he will recover.'
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GThen Yeshayahu said: 'Let them take a pressed cake of figs and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he will recover.'
KJV
King James VersionFor Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleNow Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
Footnotes
דְּבֶלֶת תְּאֵנִים (*develet te'enim*) — a pressed fig-cake used as a medicinal poultice — was a well-attested ancient Near Eastern remedy for inflammation and skin lesions, with parallels in Ugaritic and Egyptian medical texts. YHWH's supernatural healing does not bypass material means — it works *through* them. This is theologically important: the miraculous and the medical are not opposed in the biblical worldview. In Isaiah 38, these final verses (21–22) appear *after* the psalm, reversing the order of 2 Kings 20:7–8, likely to privilege the theological response — praise — over the chronological sequence.
