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.

Updated King James Version

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 you, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known your truth.

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

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Cross References

Psalms 9:13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

Psalms 30:11You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

Psalms 51:15O Lord, open you my lips; and my mouth shall show forth your praise.

Psalms 68:25The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

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

Psalms 145:2Every day will I bless you; and I will praise your 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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