Isaiah 38:20

O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing thee with the psaltery all the days of my life before the house of God.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 shall bless thee, as I also do: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare thy righteousness,

21Now Isaiah had said to Hezekiah; Take a cake of figs, and mash them, and apply them as a plaster, and thou shalt be well.

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Cross References

Psalms 9:13For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: 1 He has not forgotten the supplication of the poor. 1

Psalms 30:11For my life is spent with grief, 1 And my years with groanings: 1 My strength has been weakened through poverty, 1 And my bones are troubled. 1

Psalms 68:25Pour out thy wrath upon them, 1 And let the fury of thine anger take hold on them. 1

Psalms 145:2While I live will I praise the Lord: 1 I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. 1

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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