Isaiah 38:19
New International Version
The living, the living—they praise you, as I am doing today; parents tell their children about your faithfulness.

New Living Translation
Only the living can praise you as I do today. Each generation tells of your faithfulness to the next.

English Standard Version
The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.

Berean Standard Bible
The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

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

New King James Version
The living, the living man, he shall praise You, As I do this day; The father shall make known Your truth to the children.

New American Standard Bible
“It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

NASB 1995
“It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

NASB 1977
“It is the living who give thanks to Thee, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Thy faithfulness.

Legacy Standard Bible
It is the living, the living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A father makes known to his sons about Your truth.

Amplified Bible
“It is the living who give praise and thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

Christian Standard Bible
The living, only the living can thank you, as I do today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The living, only the living can thank You, as I do today; a father will make Your faithfulness known to children.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But the living shall confess you, like me today, and the father will show your faithfulness to the children

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The living shall bless thee, as I also do: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare thy righteousness,

Contemporary English Version
Only the living can thank you, as I am doing today. Each generation tells the next about your faithfulness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make thy truth known to the children.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Those who are living praise you as I do today. Fathers make your faithfulness known to their children.

Good News Translation
It is the living who praise you, As I praise you now. Parents tell their children how faithful you are.

International Standard Version
The living—yes the living—they thank you, just as I am doing today; fathers will tell their children about your faithfulness.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, As I do this day; The father to the children shall make known Thy truth.

Literal Standard Version
The living, the living, he confesses You,

Majority Standard Bible
The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

New American Bible
The living, the living give you thanks, as I do today. Parents declare to their children, O God, your faithfulness.

NET Bible
The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.

New Revised Standard Version
The living, the living, they thank you, as I do this day; fathers make known to children your faithfulness.

New Heart English Bible
The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

Webster's Bible Translation
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

World English Bible
The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

Young's Literal Translation
The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving
18For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. 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.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:7
And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 11:19
Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Psalm 78:4
We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.

Psalm 78:5
For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

Psalm 118:17
I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.

Psalm 119:175
Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.

Psalm 145:4
One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts--


Treasury of Scripture

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

the living

Psalm 146:2
While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

John 9:4
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

the father

Genesis 18:19
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Exodus 12:26,27
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? …

Exodus 13:14,15
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: …

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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.














(19) The father to the children . . .--The words are perfectly general, but they receive a special significance from the fact that Hezekiah's son and successor, Manasseh, who was only twelve years old at his father's death (2Kings 21:1), was not born till two or three years afterwards. At the time of his illness the king may still have been childless, and the thought that there was no son to take his place may have added bitterness to his grief. "Thy truth," has here the sense of "faithfulness" rather than of the truth about God which is the object of belief.

Verse 19. - The living. Those who still enjoy the light of day. The repetition is emphatic, and has the force of "the living, and the living only." The father to the children. Hezekiah may, or may not, have had children himself at the time. Manasseh was not born; but he may have had daughters, or even other sons, who did not survive him. He is not, however, perhaps, thinking of his own ease.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The living,
חַ֥י (ḥay)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

only the living,
חַ֛י (ḥay)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

can thank You,
יוֹדֶ֖ךָ (yō·w·ḏe·ḵā)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3034: To throw, at, away, to revere, worship, to bemoan

as I do today;
כָּמ֣וֹנִי (kā·mō·w·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 3644: Like, as, when

fathers
אָ֣ב (’āḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

will tell
יוֹדִ֖יעַ (yō·w·ḏî·a‘)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

their children
לְבָנִ֔ים (lə·ḇā·nîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

about
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Your faithfulness.
אֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃ (’ă·mit·te·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 571: Stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness


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