THEY ARE DEAD - That is, the kings and tyrants to whom reference is made in Isaiah 26:13. The principal enemies of the Jews, who had oppressed them, were slain when Babylon was taken by Cyrus (see the...
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...
THEY ARE DEAD: i.e. the "other lords" of Isaiah 26:13. Hebrew. _methim_. Not dead men, as such, for "all" men shall rise again (2 John 1:5; 2 John 1:5 :28, John 5:2
The long heathen domination is now a thing of the past; the oppressors have gone to the realm of shades, and shall trouble the world no more....
Render: THE DEAD SHALL NOT LIVE, THE SHADES (_Rěphâ" îm_, as in Isaiah 14:9) SHALL NOT RISE, &c. In the form of a general proposition the writer expresses Israel's sense of security with regard to tho...
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 t...
2. JUSTICE'S OBJECTIVE TEXT: Isaiah 26:7-15 7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just. 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we wa...
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. (THEY ARE) DEAD - the "other lords,...
1. SALVATION, etc.] the assurance of divine protection takes the place of material bulwarks....
_They are_ DEAD] i.e. the oppressors....
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 example, nobody now knows the name of the king of Egypt when God rescued his people (see Exodus 1:8)....
THEY ARE DEAD... — We get a more vivid rendering by omitting the words in italics, _Dead, they live not; shadows_ (_Rephaim,_ as in Psalms 88:10), _they rise not._ Those of whom the prophet speaks are...
מֵתִים֙ בַּל ־יִחְי֔וּ רְפָאִ֖ים בַּל ־יָקֻ֑מוּ...
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...
CHAPTER XXX THE RESURRECTION Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 25:6 GRANTED the pardon, the justice, the Temple and the God, which the returning exiles now enjoyed, the possession of these only makes more painfu...
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...
CHASTENED BY SUFFERING Isaiah 26:11-21 When God ordains our peace, a world in arms cannot disturb us. Our peace results from the conviction that God is going before us and preparing our works. But b...
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...
[They are] (n) dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. (n) Meaning that the reprobate...
_Giants; the proud emperors of Babylon, whom thou wilt destroy. Septuagint, "physicians;" as Rephaim has also this meaning._...
How strikingly is the conduct of wicked and unregenerate men here marked! If the Lord's hand be lifted up in judgments; though they see the judgments; yet as the Lord's judgments they see them not. An...
14._The dead shall not live. _(173) The Prophet again speaks of the unhappy end of the wicked, whose prosperity often agitates and vexes us, as we read in the Psalms of David. (Psalms 37:1.) That our...
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...
[THEY ARE] DEAD, THEY SHALL NOT LIVE; [THEY ARE] DECEASED, THEY SHALL NOT RISE,.... The above tyrannical lords, the kings of the earth and their mighty men, associates of the Romish antichrist, who sh...
Isaiah 26:14 [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. Ver. 14. _They are de...
_O Lord our God_, &c. The people of God, having already obtained their deliverance in part, with the overthrow and destruction of their enemies, proceed to unfold and express their hope, that God woul...
Concluding Scenes from the World's History...
They, the enemies, ARE DEAD, THEY SHALL NOT LIVE, they cannot return to their former power; THEY ARE DECEASED, THEY SHALL NOT RISE, the enemies of God cannot hope to be delivered from the everlasting...
12-19 Every creature, every business, any way serviceable to our comfort, God makes to be so; he makes that work for us which seemed to make against us. They had been slaves of sin and Satan; but by...
THEY SHALL NOT RISE; those tyrants and enemies are utterly and irrecoverably destroyed, so as they shall never live or rise again to molest us. Possibly he speaks of the miraculous destruction of Senn...
Isaiah 26:14 dead H4191 (H8801) live H2421 (H8799) deceased H7496 rise H6965 (H8799) punished H6485 ...
WHAT YAHWEH HAS DONE FOR HIS PEOPLE AND THE END OF THEIR ENEMIES (ISAIAH 26:11). As in Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 26:8 is a prayer as Isaiah has turned his face upwards towards God. And he now delights in Ya...
THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS (ISAIAH 26:5) The ways of the righteous and of the unrighteous are now compared, and their destinies contrasted. For the unrighteous the grave with its shadowy half-...
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...
_Other lords beside Thee have had dominion over us_ THE CAPTIVITY AND THE RETURN About five hundred years before the birth of Christ an event occulted which stands almost alone in the world’s histor...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 26:13 WIPED OUT ALL REMEMBRANCE. Evil is not only defeated, it even fades from memory (see Isaiah 35:10;...
SPIRITUAL USURPERS RENOUNCED Isaiah 26:13. _O Lord our God, other lords beside Thee have had dominion over us_, &c. We have in this language— I. A PENITENTIAL CONFESSION. “Other lords,” &c. Exegetica...
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...
Rise — Those tyrants are destroyed; they shall never live or rise again to molest us....
Does this contradict the Bible’s teaching on the resurrection? (See comments on Job 7:9)...