Isaiah 26:2

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 26:2

keepeth the truth = maintaineth fidelity. No Article. Compare Deuteronomy 32:20 . Occurs only here, in Isaiah. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 26:2

Isaiah 26:2. Open ye the gates— We have here another chorus, congratulating those who have been found faithful in affliction, and proclaiming that they should have communion not only with the earthly Jerusalem, and the earthly temple, but also with the spiritual and heavenly city and temple; and the scene is so formed as if the chorus here introduced saw these confessors, delivered from prison and distress, returning in great companies to their own country, hastening to Jerusalem and the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 26:2

2. Address of the returning people to the gates of Jerusalem (type of the heavenly city, :-); (Psalms 24:7; Psalms 24:9; Psalms 118:19). Antitypically (Revelation 22:14; Revelation 21:25; Revelation 21:27). righteous nation—that had not apostatized during the captivity. HORSLEY translates, "The nation of the Just One," namely, the Jews. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 26:1-6

A song 26:1-6 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 26:2

Isaiah, writing as a psalmist, called on the porters to open the celestial city gates so the nation that was right with God could enter (cf. Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:3-10; Psalms 118:19-22). The nation refers to Israel specifically in the context. Faithfulness and loyalty to the Lord will mark Israel then."God takes the very symbol of our rejection of him [i.e., a city] and transforms it into Heaven." [Note: Ortlund, p. 142.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 26:1-21

1. Salvation, etc.] the assurance of divine protection takes the place of material bulwarks.4. Everlasting strength] RM ’a rock of ages.’ Rock is applied as a title to God (Isaiah 30:29; Deuteronomy 32:4). 5. Lofty city] the power hostile to God’s people (Isaiah 24:10).7. Uprightness] ’straightness,’ implying freedom from impediment. Weigh] RV ’direct.’8. In the way of thy judgments] i.e. in the way which God, by His judgments or decrees, set out for His people to walk in. The context (Isaiah... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 26:2

(2) Open ye the gates . . .—The cry comes as from the heralds of the king of the heavenly city, proclaiming that the gates are open to those who are worthy to enter into it, i.e., to the righteous people who alone may dwell in the city of God (Psalms 15:1-2; Psalms 24:3-4; Psalms 118:19-20; Revelation 21:27.)The truth.—Literally, truths; all the many forms of truthfulness in heart and life. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 26:1-21

The Mark for Recognizing God's Peace Isaiah 26:3 I. It is not said, 'Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed'. There is nothing in mere movelessness which is suggestive of peace. A mind may be motionless without being rested; nay, it may be motionless by reason of its unrest. What, for example, is the numbness of despair, but just a mind which has been deprived of movement by its own unrest. Grief by its excess lifts stopped the pulses of feeling; fear has paralysed energy;... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 26:1-21

CHAPTER XXIXGOD’S POORDATE UNCERTAINIsaiah 25:1-12; Isaiah 26:1-21; Isaiah 27:1-13WE have seen that no more than the faintest gleam of historical reflection brightens the obscurity of chapter 24, and that the disaster which lowers there is upon too world-wide a scale to be forced within the conditions of any single period in the fortunes of Israel. In chapters 25-27, which may naturally be held to be a continuation of chapter 24, the historical allusions are more numerous. Indeed, it might be... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 26:1-21

CHAPTER 26 Judah’s Glory Song 1. Praise for Jehovah’s faithfulness and mercies (Isaiah 26:1-6 ) 2. The experiences of waiting during the night (Isaiah 26:7-11 ) 3. The assurance of peace and deliverance (Isaiah 26:12-18 ) 4. Assurance of restoration and preservation (Isaiah 26:19-21 ) We call attention to verses 12-21. Annihilationists base upon these words the evil doctrine that the wicked are not raised, but destroyed. The fact, however, is that Isaiah 26:13 and Isaiah 26:14 do not... read more