Isaiah 38:19
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Isaiah 38:19 in other translations
| BSB | The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness. |
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| WEB | The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children. |
| ASV | The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth. |
| YLT | The living, the living, he doth confess Thee. |
| DARBY | The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. |
| BBE | The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children. |
| Webster | The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. |
What does Isaiah 38:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 38:9-20
9-20. The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Is 38:9 is the heading or inscription.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 38:9-22
We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is well for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. He dwells upon this; I shall no more see the Lord. A good man wishes not to live for any other end than that he may serve God, and have communion with him. Our present residence is like that of a shepherd in his hut, a poor, mean, and cold lodging, and with a trust…
Isaiah 38:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 38:19
- Deuteronomy 6:7
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
- Psalms 119:175
Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
- Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
- Psalms 78:3-6
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
- Deuteronomy 11:19
And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
- Joel 1:3
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
- Psalms 145:4
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
- Psalms 146:2
While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
- Psalms 118:17
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.
- Exodus 12:26-27
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
- Genesis 18:19
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
- Exodus 13:14-15
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
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Context
- Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
- Isaiah 38:19
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
- Isaiah 38:20
The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
Isaiah 38:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El que vive, el que vive, éste te confesará, como yo hoy: el padre hará notoria tu verdad á los hijos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Le vivant, le vivant est celui qui te louera, comme moi aujourd’hui; le père fera connaître aux fils ta vérité. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Der Lebende, der Lebende, der preist dich, wie ich heute: der Vater gibt den Kindern Kunde von deiner Treue. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Vivens, vivens ipse confitebitur tibi, sicut et ego hodie; pater filiis notam faciet veritatem tuam. |