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 38:20 in other translations
| BSB | The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD. |
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| WEB | The LORD will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the LORD’s house. |
| ASV | Jehovah is ready to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah. |
| YLT | Like myself to-day--a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah--to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.' |
| DARBY | Jehovah was purposed to save me. — And we will play upon my stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the house of Jehovah. |
| BBE | O Lord, quickly be my saviour; so we will make my songs to corded instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Isaiah 38:20 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.
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 38:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 38:20
- Psalms 116:2
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
- Psalms 145:2
Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.
- Psalms 150:4
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
- Psalms 33:2
Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
- Psalms 51:15
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
- Habakkuk 3:19
The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
- Psalms 27:5-6
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.
- Psalms 30:11-12
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
- Psalms 116:17-19
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people, In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
- Psalms 66:13-15
I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
- Psalms 68:25
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
- Psalms 9:13-14
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- 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 38:21
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
Isaiah 38:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Jehová para salvarme; por tanto cantaremos nuestros salmos en la casa de Jehová todos los días de nuestra vida. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | L’ Éternel a voulu me sauver! Et nous jouerons de mes instruments à cordes tous les jours de notre vie, dans la maison de l’ Éternel. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jehova war bereit, mich zu retten; und wir wollen mein Saitenspiel rühren alle Tage unseres Lebens im Hause Jehovas. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Domine, salvum me fac! et psalmos nostros cantabimus cunctis diebus vitæ nostræ in domo Domini. |