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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.”

22 Hezekiah also had asked, “What will be the sign for me to go up to the Lord’s Temple?”[d]

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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
  4. Isaiah 38:22 So 1QIsab MT LXX; 1QIsaa lacks vs. 21-22; a later, third scribe, includes vs. 21-22