Isaiah 38:20

Yahweh, [was willing] to save me,—Therefore, on my stringed instruments, will we play—All the days of our life By the house of Yahweh.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, can praise thee, As I do this day,—A father, to his children, can make known thy faithfulness.

21And Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and let them press it over the boil, that he may recover.

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Cross References

Psalms 9:13Show me favour, O Yahweh! Behold my humiliation due to them who hate me, Lift me on high out of the gates of death;

Psalms 30:11Thou hast turned my lamentation, into a dance for me,—Thou hast torn off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness:

Psalms 51:15O My Lord! my lips, wilt thou open, And, my mouth, shall declare thy praise.

Psalms 68:25In front are the singers, Behind are the harpers, In the midst of damsels playing on timbrels:

Psalms 116:17To thee, will I sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and, on the Name of Yahweh, will I call:

Psalms 145:2Every day, will I bless thee, and praise thy Name, to times age-abiding and beyond.

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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