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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 38:20 - 38:20
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was ready - not in the Hebrew; “Jehovah was for my salvation,” that is, saved me (compare Isa 12:2).
we - I and my people.
in the house of the Lord - This song was designed, as many of the other Psalms, as a form to be used in public worship at stated times, perhaps on every anniversary of his recovery; hence “all the days of our life.”
lump of figs - a round cake of figs pressed into a mass (1Sa 25:18). God works by means; the meanest of which He can make effectual.
boil - inflamed ulcer, produced by the plague.