Isaiah 38:19

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

The living, the living, he confesses You,

YLT

The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

DBY

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

DRC

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.

GNV

But the liuing, the liuing, he shall confesse thee, as I doe this day: the father to the children shall declare thy trueth.

JPS

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

LXXE

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

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Original-language editions

WLC

חַ֥י חַ֛י ה֥וּא יוֹדֶ֖ךָ כָּמ֣וֹנִי הַיּ֑וֹם אָ֣ב לְבָנִ֔ים יוֹדִ֖יעַ אֶל־אֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃

LXX-Br

Οἱ ζῶντες εὐλογήσουσί σε ὃν τρόπον κᾀγώ· ἀπὸ γὰρ τῆς σήμερον παιδία ποιήσω, ἅ ἀναγγελοῦσι τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου

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• Deuteronomy 6:7And 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.
• Psalms 119:175Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.
• Psalms 78:3–6that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us. 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…
• Deuteronomy 4:9Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and…
• Joel 1:3Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
• Exodus 13:14–15In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go,…
• Psalms 118:17I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.
• Psalms 146:2I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
• Exodus 12:26–27When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’ you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and…
• Psalms 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
• Joshua 4:21–22Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’ you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
• Genesis 18:19For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
• Deuteronomy 11:19Teach 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.
• Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
• John 9:4While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

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