King James Version
Isaiah 38:20 in the King James Version says “The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in t...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 38 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Isaiah 38:20 · KJV
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
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.
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“was ready to save”
H3467properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e., (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
“me therefore we will sing my songs”
H5058properly, instrumental music; by implication, a stringed instrument; by extension, a poem set to music; specifically, an epigram
“to the stringed instruments”
H5059properly, to thrum, i.e., beat a tune with the fingers; expectation. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (generally), to make music
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all the days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“of our life”
H2416alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“in the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“The LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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