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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:9

Seeking God in the night. "With my soul have I desired thee in the night." When God's judgments are in the earth, even the righteous become more earnest. They need the quickening of spirit which comes from marking "the way," the sure way, and sometimes the swift way, of God's judgments. But the night must be taken in a personal sense as well as in a national sense. I. WE DESIRE GOD IN THE NIGHT OF OUR SORROWS . Thick clouds come over the heart. We are no longer... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:10

Let favor be showed to the wicked. This is a further explanation of the reason why the righteous had so earnestly desired the coming of God's judgments upon the earth. They had felt that further mercy and long-suffering wine thrown away upon the wicked, and "only did them harm" (Kay). When "favor was showed them," they did but persist in unrighteousness. In the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly. Even good example does not convert the wicked man. Though he live in a "land of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:10

Guilty insensibility. The wise and good man will learn something from everything; the foolish and sinful man will learn nothing from anything. In whatever accents God may speak, this latter hears not his voice, and heeds not his will; he is guiltily insensible to all kinds of heavenly influence; he is— I. UNTOUCHED BY THE VISITATION OF GOD 'S GOODNESS . He does not "learn righteousness," though "favor be showed" to him by God. God may be, as he is, multiplying his mercies... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:11

When thy hand is lifted up, they will not see. The original is more graphic. It runs, "Lord, thy hand is lifted up, [but] they see not. They shall see to their shame thy jealousy for thy people; yea, fire shall devour thy adversaries" God's jealousy "burns like fire" ( Psalms 79:9 ; Zephaniah 1:18 ) in the cause of his people. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:12

Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us ; i.e. henceforth thou wilt give us an existence of perfect peace (see Isaiah 26:3 ), untroubled by adversaries. For thou also hast wrought all our works in us ; rather, all our work for us . The "work" intended seems to be, as Mr. Cheyne observes, "the work of their deliverance." read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:12-18

The argument from the past. Great things are represented, by the prophetic voice, to have been done, and these furnish the strongest reason to expect great things in the future. I. THE GREAT THINGS GOD HAS DONE FOR US . 1. He has heard our cry in the day of distress ( Isaiah 26:16 , Isaiah 26:17 ). Few things go home to our hearts more readily than the words of the psalmist, "I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me." It is a great thing to have been heard of God,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:13

Other lords . The saved had not always been faithful to Jehovah. Some, no doubt, had actually been idolaters, as many of the early Christians ( 1 Corinthians 12:2 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:9 , etc.). Others had given their hearts for a time to other vanities, and turned away from God. Now, in the new Jerusalem, they confess their short comings, and acknowledge that only through God's mercy—by thee—are they in the condition to celebrate his Name. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:13

Full allegiance to Jehovah. This may be regarded as still a part of the song which the exiles would sing when the way was made plain for their return to their own beloved land. The way would not be plain until the great oppressing city of Babylon, and the great oppressing dynasty of Nebuchadnezzar, had been humbled. Then God would "ordain peace" for his people; and then the full and glad allegiance of Ms people to him could be fully and freely expressed and manifested. The answering... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:14

They are dead , etc.; literally. Dead , they shall not live ( i.e. return to life); deceased , they shall not arise . The power of the idol-gods is altogether passed away. It was for this end— therefore —that God had visited and destroyed them, and made their very memory to perish . How strange it seems that the "great gods" whom so many millions worshipped in former times—Bel, and Asshur, and Ammon, and Zeus, and Jupiter—should have passed so completely away as to be almost... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:15

Thou hast increased the nation ; i.e. the "righteous nation" of Isaiah 26:2 —not the Jewish people merely, but "the Israel of God"—who are to be "a great multitude, that no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues" ( Revelation 7:9 ). Thou hadst removed it. This rendering gives a very good sense. It makes the redeemed pass in thought from their present state of happiness and glory to that former time of tribulation and affliction when they were a remnant,... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:12-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 26:15

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