For ever; in all times and conditions. Everlasting strength, Heb. the Rock of ages; a sure refuge to all those that trust in him, through all generations; therefore you may safely trust in him, and that for ever.
Verse Isaiah 26:4. _IN THE LORD JEHOVAH_ - "In JEHOVAH"] In JAH JEHOVAH, Heb.; but see _Houbigant_, and Isaiah 12:2. _EVERLASTING STRENGTH_] צור עולמים _tsur olamim_, "the rock of ages;" or, accordi...
TRUST YE IN THE LORD FOR EVER - The sense is, ‘Let your confidence in God on no occasion fail. Let no calamity, no adversity, no persecution, no poverty, no trial of any kind, prevent your reposing en...
CHAPTER 26 JUDAH'S GLORY SONG 1. _Praise for Jehovah's faithfulness and mercies (Isaiah 26:1)_ 2. _The experiences of waiting during the night (Isaiah 26:7)_ 3. The assurance of peace and deliverance...
MEMORIES AND ANTICIPATIONS. The poem, which is a very elaborate composition, seems to have been written in confident expectation of deliverance, though the actual situation is still one of distress. J...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. THE LORD. Hebrew Jah. App-4. In Isaiah, only here and Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 38:11; Isaiah 38:11. JEHOVAH. One of the four passages where the Authorized Version trans...
_for in the Lord JEHOVAH_is _everlasting strength_ Render: FOR YAH YAHVEH (see on Isaiah 12:2) IS AN EVERLASTING ROCK (lit. "a Rock of Ages"). The preposition _IN_ may be omitted in English (_Bêth ess...
DISCOURSE: 894 TRUST IN GOD RECOMMENDED Isaiah 26:3. _Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord_ J...
TRUST YE IN THE LORD— The fourth chorus, in these verses, contains an exhortation directed to others to place their confidence in God, upon the knowledge and observation of the present illustrious del...
C. JUSTICE AT LAST FOR JUDAH, CHAPTER 26 1. JUSTICE'S ORIGIN TEXT: Isaiah 26:1-6 1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for wel...
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: IN THE LORD YAHWEH (IS) EVERLASTING STRENGTH - Hebrew, tsuwr (H6697) `owlaamiym (H5769), the rock of ages. "The Lord...
1. SALVATION, etc.] the assurance of divine protection takes the place of material bulwarks....
EVERLASTING STRENGTH] RM 'a rock of ages.' Rock is applied as a title to God (Isaiah 30:29; Deuteronomy 32:4)....
Firm trust in God is the essential rule that directs the believer’s life. It is not a declaration of trust in God on just one occasion. It is the constant practice of trust in him all through life. •...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 26 A SONG TO PRAISE GOD V1 At that time all the people in Judah will sing this song:...
FOR IN THE LORD JEHOVAH. — The Hebrew presents, as in Isaiah 12:2, the exceptional combination of the two names Jah (Psalms 68:4) and Jehovah. In the Hebrew for “everlasting strength,” we have, litera...
בִּטְח֥וּ בַֽ יהוָ֖ה עֲדֵי ־עַ֑ד כִּ֚י בְּ
CHAPTER XXIX GOD'S POOR DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 26:1; Isaiah 27:1 WE have seen that no more than the faintest gleam of historical reflection brightens the obscurity of chapter 24, and th...
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - w...
PEACE THROUGH STEADFAST TRUST Isaiah 26:1-10 No doubt when Babylon fell before Cyrus the Jewish remnant under Ezra and Nehemiah sang this triumphal ode, which contrasts the respective lots of Babylon...
Naturally following this prophecy of praise for the activity of Jehovah is the great song which will be sung in the day of Jehovah's ultimate victory. It is praise for the establishment of the city, a...
_You, people of Juda._...
The first of these verses is a blessed promise; and the second is the foundation of the enjoyment of it. Some read the last phrase of it (and indeed the margin of our old Bibles preserve the reading s...
4._Trust ye in Jehovah for ever. _As to the words, some read in the second clause, “Trust in God, the strong Jehovah of ages;” but as צור (_tzūr_) is not always an adjective, but signifies _strength_,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 25 AND 26. Chapter s 25 and 26 take the form of a song, in which the effect of God's intervention is celebrated. Let us observe its principal subjects. God is...
TRUST YE IN THE LORD FOR EVER,.... In the Word of the Lord for ever and ever, as the Targum again; that is, at all times, in every state and condition, in times of affliction, temptation, and darkness...
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is] everlasting strength: Ver. 4. _Trust in the Lord for ever._] To trust in God is to be unbottomed of thyself and of every creature, and so t...
_Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace_ Hebrew, _in peace, peace;_ peace with God, and peace of conscience; peace at all times, and under all events; _whose mind is stayed on thee_ Hebrew, יצר סמוךְ, _t...
THE CHURCH'S SONG OF PRAISE...
Trust ye in the Lord forever, thus the chorus from heaven once more admonishes; FOR IN THE LORD JEHOVAH, the God of salvation, IS EVERLASTING STRENGTH, He is the Rock of Ages, whose strength overcomes...
EVERLASTING STRENGTH: _ Heb._ the rock of ages...
1-4 "That day," seems to mean when the New Testament Babylon shall be levelled with the ground. The unchangeable promise and covenant of the Lord are the walls of the church of God. The gates of this...
Isaiah 26:4 Trust H982 (H8798) LORD H3068 forever H5703 YAH H3068 LORD H3050 everlasting H5769 strength H6697...
THE SONG OF DELIVERANCE AND THE STRONG CITY (ISAIAH 26:1). The first four verses of chapter 26 with their description of the strong city of God with its walls and bulwarks of salvation, which is for t...
Isaiah 26:1. _In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks._ God is the great source of song; he «giveth songs in...
Isaiah 26:1. _In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah;_ God would have his people to be a singing people. They often sigh; they should oftener sing. God makes their songs, and appoin...
Isaiah 26:1. _In that day_ Or, rather, as we may read it now, «In this day» Isaiah 26:1. Shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and...
CONTENTS: Worship and testimony of restored and converted Israel in the Kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God's people Israel, banished and driven out by the iniquity of the former times wil...
Isaiah 26:1. When Sennacherib's army was slain, the Hebrews could sing, We _have a strong city;_ yea, a city stronger than Jerusalem. God is our refuge, a very present help in time of trouble. We are...
_Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee_ PERFECT PEACE The Scriptures are full of priceless secrets, and here is one of them--the secret of trust in God as revealed to us...
_Trust ye in the Lord forever_ TRUSTING IN THE LORD I. THE DUTY ITSELF. 1. It implies an acquiescence or submission to the will of God, whatever it may be--trusting in Him, assured that He is doing,...
_In that day shall this song be sung_ PERIODS OF RESTORATION If it be demanded, what period of time is this which the prophet speaks of? we must answer, that it is the time when the people, who for...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 26:4 TRUST IN THE LORD. This is the practical challenge that the book of Isaiah 1:1 lays down for God’s people (see...
PERFECT PEACE Isaiah 26:3. _Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, &c._ Our text points to the infallible remedy for the worst of all forms of human ills, a burdened and disconsolate spirit—“perfect p...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 26:1 A SONG OF THE REDEEMED IN MOUNT ZION. The prophet, having (in Isaiah 25:1.) poured forth his own thankfulness to God for the promise of t
Shall we turn to Isaiah chapter 26 as we begin our study this evening. Now Isaiah 26:1-21 goes right along with Isaiah 25:1-12 because it declares, In that day (Isaiah 26:1) In what day? In the day...
1 Samuel 2:2; 2 Chronicles 20:20; 2 Chronicles 32:8; Deuteronomy 32:15;...
For ever — In all times and conditions....