Isaiah 26:13-14

Isaiah 26:13-14. O Lord our God— The holy confessors, having in the preceding verse expressed their hope that God would perfect all his good works for them, proceed to unfold that hope; after having already obtained their deliverance in part with the overthrow and destruction of their enemies. They say, that other lords besides Jehovah had obtained power and dominion over them,—which literally signifies the Babylonians, Persians, &c.; mystically, the spiritual enemies of the church; but now delivered from this servitude, they add, that they will remember the name of God, or make mention of it by God only. The meaning whereof is, that, owing their delivery solely to God, and not to the intervention of any temporal power, they would give thanks to him alone for the benefit, and acknowledge their salvation as due to him only. Bishop Lowth reads it. Thee only, and thy name, henceforth will we celebrate. See Psalms 71:16. The 14th verse should be rendered, The dead shall not revive, the deceased shall not rise; and the meaning is, that the enemies of the church were so totally destroyed, that they should not be able to rise any more to hurt or persecute the people of God. See Vitringa.