Isaiah 38:19 · KJV
“The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I {do} this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.”
— Isaiah 38:19
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can {not} celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for 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.
Isaiah 38 — Context
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul {delivered it} from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. {for peace...: or, on my peace came great bitterness} {thou hast in...: Heb. thou hast loved my soul from the pit}
18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can {not} celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I {do} this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
20The 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.
21For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay {it} for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:7
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. {teach: Heb. whet, or, sharpen}
Psalms 119:175
Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
Psalms 78:3-6
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
Exodus 13:14-15
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What {is} this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: {in...: Heb. to morrow}
Psalms 146:2
While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Joel 1:3
Tell ye your children of it, and {let} your children {tell} their children, and their children another generation.
Psalms 145:4
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.