Isaiah 38:20 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 38:20

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

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

Letter 10.3 (373)

At no time should one freely praise God more than when one has passed through afflictions. Nor again should one at any time give thanks more than when he finds rest from toil and temptations. As Hezekiah, when the Assyrians perished, praised the Lord and gave thanks, saying, "The Lord is my salvation, and I will not cease to bless you with harp all the days of my life, before the house of the Lord."

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"Jehovah was for my salvation," that is, saved me (compare Isa 12:2). we--I and my people. in the house of the Lord--This song was designed, as many of the other Psalms, as a form to be used in public worship at stated times, perhaps on every anniversary of his recovery; hence "all the days of our life." lump of figs--a round cake of figs pressed into a mass (1Sa 25:18).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Isa 38:9 is the heading or inscription.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
לְהוֹשִׁיעֵ֑נִי	le.ho.shi.'E.ni	[is] to save me	H3467 →
וּנְגִנוֹתַ֧י	u.ne.gi.no.Tai	and songs my	H5058 →
נְנַגֵּ֛ן	ne.na.Gen	we will play	H5059 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
יְמֵ֥י	ye.Mei	[the] days of	H3117 →
חַיֵּ֖ינוּ	chai.Yei.nu	lives our	H2416 →
עַל־	'al-	at	H5921 →
בֵּ֥ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
יְהוָֽה׃	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H3467lehoshieni[is] to save me206×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 150:4
Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
leads to
- Exodus 15:20
  Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 149:3
  Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
Through
Psalms 116:2
Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.
leads to
- Psalms 145:18–19
  The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
- Psalms 40:1
  I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
- Philippians 4:6
  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
- Psalms 55:16–17
  But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.
- Psalms 31:2
  Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.
Through
Psalms 68:25
The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 13:8
  David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

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Where the connections lead

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06About Isaiah

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah