以赛亚书 38:19

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

只有活人才能稱謝你，像我今日一樣；作父親的，要讓兒女知道你的信實。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
只 有 活 人 ， 活 人 必 称 谢 你 ， 像 我 今 日 称 谢 你 一 样 。 为 父 的 ， 必 使 儿 女 知 道 你 的 诚 实 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ After Hezekiah king of Judah got well, he wrote this song: ¹⁰ I said, "I am in the middle of my life. Do I have to go through the gates of death? Will I have the rest of my life taken away from me?" ¹¹ I said, "I will not see the Lord in the land of the living again. I will not again see the people who live on the earth. ¹² Like a shepherd's tent, my home has been pulled down and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth a weaver rolls up and cuts from the loom. In one day you brought me to this end. ¹³ All night I cried loudly. Like a lion, he crushed all my bones. In one day you brought me to this end. ¹⁴ I cried like a bird and moaned like a dove. My eyes became tired as I looked to the heavens. Lord, I have troubles. Please help me." ¹⁵ What can I say? The Lord told me what would happen and then made it happen. I have had these troubles in my soul, so now I will be humble all my life. ¹⁶ Lord, because of you, people live. Because of you, my spirit also lives; you made me well and let me live. ¹⁷ It was for my own good that I had such troubles. Because you love me very much, you did not let me die but threw my sins far away. ¹⁸ People in the place of the dead cannot praise you; those who have died cannot sing praises to you; those who die don't trust you to help them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the living: Psalms 146:2, Ecclesiastes 9:10, John 9:4

the father: Genesis 18:19, Exodus 12:26, Exodus 12:27, Exodus 13:14, Exodus 13:15, Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 6:7, Joshua 4:21, Joshua 4:22, Psalms 78:3-6, Psalms 145:4, Joel 1:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 13:8 - General Deuteronomy 11:19 - General Joshua 4:6 - when your Job 8:8 - inquire Job 15:18 - from their Psalms 6:5 - For Psalms 19:2 - Day unto Psalms 27:13 - in the Psalms 44:1 - have heard Psalms 48:8 - As we Psalms 67:3 - General Psalms 78:5 - that they Psalms 88:10 - Wilt thou Psalms 115:17 - dead Psalms 119:175 - Let my Zechariah 10:7 - yea Luke 17:15 - General John 17:15 - take Ephesians 6:4 - but Philippians 1:22 - this

Cross-References

Genesis 38:14
So she took off the clothes that showed she was a widow and covered her face with a veil to hide who she was. Then she sat down by the gate of Enaim on the road to Timnah. She did this because Judah's younger son Shelah had grown up, but Judah had not made plans for her to marry him.

2 Samuel 14:2
So Joab sent messengers to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He said to her, "Pretend to be very sad. Put on funeral clothes and don't put lotion on yourself. Act like a woman who has been crying many days for someone who died.

2 Samuel 14:5
King David asked her, "What is the matter?" The woman said, "I am a widow; my husband is dead.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day,.... Every one of the living, or such who are both corporeally and spiritually alive; and therefore the word is repeated; none but such who are alive in a corporeal sense can praise the Lord in this world; and none but such who are spiritually alive can praise him aright, and such do under a true sense of the greatness of his mercies, and of their own unworthiness; and such a one was Hezekiah; for the words may be rendered, "as I am this day x"; that is, alive in both the above senses; and so did he praise God, in such a spiritual manner, even on the day he committed this to writing, and was now in the temple offering up this thanksgiving:

the father to the children shall make known thy truth: not meaning himself, for at this time he had no children; though, no doubt, when he had any, as he afterwards had, particularly Manasseh, he took care to acquaint him with the truth and faithfulness of God in the fulfilling of his promises to him; and which every religious parent would do, and so transmit the memory thereof to future ages.

x כמני היום "quails ego sum hodie", Syr.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The living, the living - An emphatic or intensive form of expression, as in Isaiah 38:11, Isaiah 38:17. Nothing would express his idea but a repetition of the word, as if the heart was full of it.

The father to the children - One generation of the living to another. The father shall have so deep a sense of the goodness of God that he shall desire to make it known to his children, and to perpetuate the memory of it in the earth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 38:19. Thy truth — אל אמתך el amittecha. A MS. omits אל el; and instead of אל el, an ancient MS. and one edition read את eth. The same mistake as in Psalms 2:7.