Isaiah 38:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.”
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“The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 38:19 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 18:19For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
- Exodus 10:2and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”
- Exodus 12:26When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
- Exodus 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Deuteronomy 4:9Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
- Deuteronomy 4:10The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
- Deuteronomy 6:7And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Deuteronomy 11:19Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Joshua 4:21Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
- Psalms 78:3that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- Psalms 78:4We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
- Psalms 118:17I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.
- Psalms 119:175Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.
- Psalms 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- Psalms 146:2I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Joel 1:3Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
- John 9:4While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
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