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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child ,.... Like women with child; we have been full of hopes and expectations of great things, of deliverance from our enemies, and of the kingdom of Christ being at hand: we have been in pain ; in great distress and anxiety, and in fervent and frequent prayer, travailing in birth, which we looked upon as forerunners of a happy issue of things: we have as it were brought forth wind ; all our hopes have proved abortive, and we have been disappointed in our... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 26:19

Thy dead men shall live ,.... These are the words of Christ to his church and people, promising great and good things to them after their troubles are over, thereby comforting them under all their trials and disappointments; as that such things should come to pass, which would be as life from the dead; as the conversion of the Jews, and of great numbers of the Gentiles, dead in trespasses and sins; and a great reviving of the interest of religion, and of professors of it, grown cold, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 26:20

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers ,.... These words are either to be connected with the preceding verse Isaiah 26:19 , and considered as a part of the song; and then the design of them is, to let the people of God know that there would be times of great trouble and distress, previous to that glorious one before mentioned; whether it is to be understood of a spiritual resurrection, the conversion of Jews and Gentiles in the latter day, which the judgments on antichrist will... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 26:21

For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place ,.... God, as omnipresent, is everywhere, and cannot be properly said to quit one place, and go to another; but as heaven is the seat of his majesty, and where he more manifestly displays his glory, when he is said to do anything remarkable on earth, he is said to come out of his place, and come down thither, Micah 1:3 especially in the exertion of his power and justice, in a way of punishment of sin; which is his act, his strange act; and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 26:16

Lord, in trouble have they visited thee "O Jehovah, in affliction we have sought thee" - So the Septuagint and two MSS. have פקדנוך pekadnucha , in the first person plural. And so perhaps it should be צקנו tsaknu , in the first person; but how the Septuagint read this word is not clear; and this last member of the verse is extremely obscure. For למו lamo , "on them," the Septuagint read לנו lanu , "on us," in the first person likewise; a frequent mistake; see note on ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 26:18

We have - brought forth wind - The learned Professor Michaelis explains this image in the following manner: " Rariorem morbum describi, empneumatosin, aut ventosam molam, dictum; quo quae laborant diu et sibi et peritis medicis gravidae videntur,tandemque post omnes verae graviditatis molestias et labored ventum ex utero emittunt: quem morbum passim describunt medici . "Syntagma Comment., vol. ii., p. 165. The empneumatosis, or windy inflation of the womb, is a disorder to which females... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 26:19

My dead body "My deceased" - All the ancient Versions render it in the plural; they read נבלותי niblothai , my dead bodies. The Syriac and Chaldee read נבלותיהם niblotheyhem , their dead bodies. No MS. yet found confirms this reading. The dew of herbs "The dew of the dawn" - Lucis, according to the Vulgate; so also the Syriac and Chaldee. The deliverance of the people of God from a state of the lowest depression is explained by images plainly taken from the resurrection of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 26:20

Comes my people, enter thou into thy chambers - An exhortation to patience and resignation under oppression, with a confident expectation of deliverance by the power of God manifestly to be exerted in the destruction of the oppressor. It seems to be an allusion to the command of Moses to the Israelites, when the destroying angel was to go through the land of Egypt, "not to go out at the door of their houses until the morning;" Exodus 12:22 . And before the passage of the Red Sea: "Fear ye... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 26:21

The earth also shall disclose her blood - Crimes of cruelty and oppression, which have passed away from the eyes of men, God will bring into judgment, and exact punishment for them. O what a reckoning will the kingdoms of the earth have with God, for the torrents of blood which they have shed for the gratification of the lust of power and ambition! Who shall live when he doeth this? read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:1-13

The vision of future glory. It seems best to take this as the picture of an ideal spiritual state. I. THE IMPREGNABLE CITY . Its walls and outworks are "salvation." A great word—negatively hinting deliverance from the enemy and the oppressor; positively including all the contents of sacred peace, prosperity, and happiness. But salvation is nothing without a Savior; it is the loving presence of Jehovah who girds about Jerusalem as a wall. In Zechariah 2:9 he is spoken of as a... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 26:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 26:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 26:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 26:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 26:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 26:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 26:19

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 26:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 26:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:1-13

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