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Selected Verse: Isaiah 38:20 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 38:20 |
King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
was ready--not in the Hebrew; "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 (Sa1 25:18). God works by means; the meanest of which He can make effectual.
boil--inflamed ulcer, produced by the plague. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The Lord was ready to save me - He was prompt, quick to save me. He did not hesitate or delay.
Therefore we will sing my songs - That is, my family and nation. The song of Hezekiah was designed evidently not as a mere record, but to be used in celebrating the praises of God, and probably in a public manner in the temple. The restoration of the monarch was a fit occasion for public rejoicing; and it is probable that this ode was composed to be used by the company of singers that were employed constantly in the temple.
To the stringed instruments - We will set it to music, and will use it publicly (see the notes at Isa 5:12). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Was ready - Was a present help. |
18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.