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19 The living—yes the living—they thank you,
    just as I am doing today;
fathers will tell their children
    about your faithfulness.
20 The Lord will save me,[a]
    and we will play my music on strings
all the days of our lives
    in the Lord’s Temple.[b]

21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them prepare[c] a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:20 At this point a later scribe inserted into 1QIsaa a repetition of v. 19 and the beginning of v. 20, but with some different spellings and a word missing.
  2. Isaiah 38:20 The same second scribe continued with the rest of this verse; not originally in 1QIsaa.
  3. Isaiah 38:21 So MT; LXX reads Take; 1QIsaa lacks Let them prepare