Isaiah 38:20

In 11 translations

BSB

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

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.

WEB

Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.

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.

LSV

Like myself today; A father makes known to [his] sons of Your faithfulness, || O YHWH—to save me: And we sing my songs all [the] days of our lives || In the house of YHWH.”

YLT

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.'

DBY

Jehovah was [purposed] to save me. — And we will play upon my stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the house of Jehovah.

DRC

O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

GNV

The Lord was ready to saue me: therefore we will sing my song, all the dayes of our life in the House of the Lord.

JPS

The LORD is ready to save me; therefore we will sing songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

LXXE

O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing thee with the psaltery all the days of my life before the house of God.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יְהוָ֖ה לְהוֹשִׁיעֵ֑נִי וּנְגִנוֹתַ֧י נְנַגֵּ֛ן כָּל־יְמֵ֥י חַיֵּ֖ינוּ עַל־בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Θεὲ τῆς σωτηρίας μου, καὶ οὐ παύσομαι εὐλογῶν σε μετὰ ψαλτηρίου πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς μου, κατέναντι τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ Θεοῦ.

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• Psalms 145:2Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.
• Psalms 116:2Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.
• Psalms 150:4Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
• Psalms 51:15O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
• Psalms 27:5–6For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock. Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I…
• Habakkuk 3:19GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.
• Psalms 30:11–12You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing Your praises and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks forever.
• Psalms 66:13–15I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You— the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress. I will offer You fatlings as burnt offerings, with the fragrant smoke of…
• Psalms 68:25The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.
• Psalms 9:13–14Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all Your praises— that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.
• Psalms 33:2Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.
• Psalms 116:17–19I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD. I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people, in the courts of the LORD’s house, in your midst, O Jerusalem.…

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