Isaiah 38:21

38:21 ¹  Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”

Isaiah 63:8

63:8 He said, “Certainly they will be my people,

children who are not disloyal.” ² 

He became their deliverer.

[38:21]  ¹ tc If original to Isaiah 38, vv. 21-22 have obviously been misplaced in the course of the text’s transmission, and would most naturally be placed here, between Isa 38:6 and 38:7. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8, where these verses are placed at this point in the narrative, not at the end. Another possibility is that these verses were not in the original account, and a scribe, familiar with the 2 Kgs version of the story, appended vv. 21-22 to the end of the account in Isaiah 38.

[63:8]  ² tn Heb “children [who] do not act deceitfully.” Here the verb refers to covenantal loyalty.