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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; …
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-22)We have here Hezekiah’s thanksgiving-song, which he penned, by divine direction, after his recovery. He might have taken some of the psalms of his father David, and made use of them for his purpose; he might have found many very pertinent ones. He appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David , 2 Chron. 29:30. But the occasion here was extraordinary, and, his heart being full of…
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