KJV 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.
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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.
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BSB 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.
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.’
Surrounding context — Isaiah 38
17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
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.
21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay [it] for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
22 Hezekiah also had said, What [is] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
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Psalm 116:2Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon [him] as long as I live.Psalm 150:4Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.Psalm 145:2Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.Psalm 116:17-19I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.Psalm 66:13-15I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,Psalm 9:13-14Have 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 33:2Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings.Psalm 27:5-6For 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 30:11-12Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;Psalm 68:25The singers went before, the players on instruments [followed] after; among [them were] the damsels playing with timbrels.Habakkuk 3:19The 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.Psalm 51:15O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
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