Isaiah 38:20

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.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

21Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.

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Cross References

Psalms 9:13Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death:

Psalms 30:11Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

Psalms 51:15Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

Psalms 68:25The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets.

Psalms 116:17I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of Jehovah.

Psalms 145:2Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:10-22

Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord , in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will… Read the whole commentary →

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