Treasury of Scripture
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Isaiah 12:1 And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away...
Exodus 15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying, I will sing to the LORD...
Judges 5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
1 Samuel 2:1-10 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoices in the LORD, my horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies...
Psalm 18:1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
Psalm 30:11,12 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness...
Psalm 107:17-22 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted...
Psalm 116:1-4 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications...
Psalm 118:18,19 The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over to death...
Jonah 2:1-9 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish's belly...
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Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound...
1 Samuel 2:6 The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up.
Job 5:18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
Hosea 6:1,2 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up...
We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving song, which he penned by Divine direction, after his recovery. He might have used some of the Psalms of David his father, as he had appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, but the occasion here was extraordinary. His heart being full of devout affections, he would not confine himself to the compositions he had, though of Divine inspiration, but offered up his praises in his own words. The Lord put a new song into his mouth. He put his thanksgiving into writing, that he might review it himself afterwards for the reviving of the good impressions made upon him by the providential interference, and that it might be recommended to others also for their use upon the like occasion.
2 Chronicles 29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise to the LORD with the words of David...
