Isaiah 38:20
New International Version
The LORD will save me, and we will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the temple of the LORD.

New Living Translation
Think of it—the LORD is ready to heal me! I will sing his praises with instruments every day of my life in the Temple of the LORD.

English Standard Version
The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives, at the house of the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
“The LORD was ready to save me; Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life, in the house of the LORD.”

New American Standard Bible
“The LORD is certain to save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of the LORD.”

NASB 1995
“The LORD will surely save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of the LORD.”

NASB 1977
“The LORD will surely save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of the LORD.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh is here to save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of Yahweh.”

Amplified Bible
“The LORD is ready to save me; Therefore we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our lives at the house of the LORD.”

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD is ready to save me; we will play stringed instruments all the days of our lives at the house of the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD will save me; we will play stringed instruments all the days of our lives at the house of the LORD.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH will save us and we will sing his praises all the days of our lives in the house of LORD JEHOVAH

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.

Contemporary English Version
You, LORD, will save me, and every day that we live we will sing in your temple to the music of stringed instruments.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

English Revised Version
The LORD is 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD is going to rescue me, so let us play stringed instruments. We live our lives in the LORD's temple.

Good News Translation
LORD, you have healed me. We will play harps and sing your praise, Sing praise in your Temple as long as we live.

International Standard Version
The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on strings all the days of our lives in the LORD's Temple.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The LORD is ready to save me; Therefore we will sing songs to the stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

Literal Standard Version
Like myself today; A father makes known to [his] sons of Your faithfulness, | O YHWH—to save me: And we sing my songs all [the] days of our lives | In the house of YHWH.”

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.

New American Bible
The LORD is there to save us. We shall play our music In the house of the LORD all the days of our life.

NET Bible
The LORD is about to deliver me, and we will celebrate with music for the rest of our lives in the LORD's temple."

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD will save me, and we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our lives, at the house of the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.

Young's Literal Translation
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.'

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Context
Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving
19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness. 20The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD. 21Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”…

Cross References
Psalm 33:1
Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous; befitting is the praise of the upright.

Psalm 68:24
They have seen Your procession, O God--the march of my God and King into the sanctuary.

Psalm 104:33
I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

Psalm 116:2
Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.

Psalm 116:17
I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.

Psalm 146:2
I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

Psalm 150:4
Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

therefore

Psalm 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: …

Psalm 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…

Psalm 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 stringed

Psalm 150:4
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

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.

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Isaiah 38
1. Hezekiah, having received a message of death, by prayer has his life lengthened
8. The sun goes ten degrees backward, for a sign of that promise
9. His song of thanksgiving.














(20) Was ready.--Better, as fitting in with the praise and hope of the close of the prayer, is ready.

We will sing.--The king identifies himself with the great congregation, perhaps even yet more closely with the Levite minstrels of the Temple whom he had done so much to train and re-organise.

Verse 20. - The Lord was ready to save me; rather, came to my rescue; came and saved me. Therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments; rather, therefore will we play my stringed instruments. Hezekiah calls the stringed instruments his, because he had recalled their use, and re-established them as a part of the temple service after the suspension of that service by Ahaz (2 Chronicles 29:30). His intention now is to take continual part with the Levites in (he choral praises of God, which were a part of the daily worship of the temple. This is to him the natural mode of expressing his thankfulness to God for the mercy vouchsafed him.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

will save me;
לְהוֹשִׁיעֵ֑נִי (lə·hō·wō·šî·‘ê·nî)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3467: To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor

we will play songs
נְנַגֵּ֛ן (nə·nag·gên)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 5059: To touch or play a stringed instrument

on stringed instruments
וּנְגִנוֹתַ֧י (ū·nə·ḡi·nō·w·ṯay)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 5058: Instrumental music, a stringed instrument, a poem set to music, an epigram

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the days
יְמֵ֥י (yə·mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of our lives
חַיֵּ֖ינוּ (ḥay·yê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

in
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the house
בֵּ֥ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

of the LORD.”
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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