The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
- KJV The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
- NKJV The Lord will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
- NASB The Lord will strike you on the knees and thighs with severe boils from which you cannot be healed, and strike you from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
- NLT The Lord will cover your knees and legs with incurable boils. In fact, you will be covered from head to foot.
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God will strike them with incurable, painful boils from head to foot.
Overview
The whole body is afflicted with sores that cannot be healed. This total bodily affliction echoes the diseases of Egypt mentioned earlier. It depicts suffering that leaves no part of the person untouched.
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Cross-references · 5
- Deut 28:27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
- Isa 1:6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.
- Job 2:6–7“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
- Isa 3:17the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
- Isa 3:24Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
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