Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 26:16
They — Thy people. Visited — Come into thy presence, with their prayers and supplications.
They — Thy people. Visited — Come into thy presence, with their prayers and supplications.
Verse Isaiah 26:16. _LORD, IN TROUBLE HAVE THEY VISITED THEE_ - "O JEHOVAH, in affliction we have sought thee"] So the _Septuagint_ and two MSS. have פקדנוך _pekadnucha_, in the first person plural. A...
POURED OUT A PRAYER - Margin, ‘Secret speech.’ The Hebrew word לחשׁ _lachash_ means properly a whispering, muttering; and thru a sighing, a calling for help. This is the sense here. In their calamity...
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...
_in trouble_("distress" or "straits," as ch. Isaiah 25:4) _have they visited thee_ i.e. sought after thee. The verb might also mean "missed thee" felt their need of thee. This was no doubt a spiritual...
The poet plunges abruptly into a train of reflection on the depressing side of the nation's experience....
LORD, IN TROUBLE HAVE THEY VISITED THEE— _O_ JEHOVAH, _in affliction have we sought thee._ Lowth. The 18th verse may be read, _We had conceived; we were in pain; we brought forth as it were wind: As t...
3. JUSTICE'S OPERATION TEXT: Isaiah 26:16-21 16 Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. 17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth...
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. LORD, IN TROUBLE HAVE THEY VISITED (i:e., sought) THEE, THEY POURED OUT A PRAYER () - as a vess...
26:16 prayer (i-12) Or 'lisping,' or 'secret speech.'...
1. SALVATION, etc.] the assurance of divine protection takes the place of material bulwarks....
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:...
LORD, IN TROUBLE HAVE THEY VISITED THEE. — Better, _have they missed Thee_ (as in 1 Samuel 20:6; 1 Samuel 25:15), or _sought after Thee,_ or, _remembered Thee._ THEY POURED OUT A PRAYER... — The word...
יְהוָ֖ה בַּ † צַּ֣ר פְּקָד֑וּךָ צָק֣וּן לַ֔חַשׁ...
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...
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...
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...
LORD, in trouble have they (p) visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them. (p) That is, the faithful by the rods were moved to pray to you for deliverance....
_They. Septuagint, "We," &c. (Calmet) --- Affliction is a wholesome medicine. (Haydock)_...
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...
16._O Jehovah, in tribulation they have visited thee. _This might be explained as relating to hypocrites, who never flee to God but when they have been constrained by distresses and afflictions. But s...
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...
LORD, IN TROUBLE HAVE THEY VISITED THEE,.... This, and the two following verses Isaiah 26:17, represent the troubles and disappointments of the church and people of God, before the destruction of anti...
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them. Ver. 16. _Lord, in trouble have they visited thee._] _Pulcherrimus afflictationum fructus, pre...
O _Lord, in trouble_ Amidst the various calamities brought upon them for their correction and especially in their captivity; _have they_ Namely, thy people; _visited thee_ Come into thy presence with...
Concluding Scenes from the World's History...
Lord, in trouble have they visited Thee, thus the prophet once more cries out with reference to the night of affliction; THEY POURED OUT A PRAYER, all the more fervent because it is made in secret, WH...
PRAYER: _ Heb._ secret speech...
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, to wit, thy people, as appears both from the matter of this verse, and from the following verses. VISITED THEE; come into thy presence, with their prayers and supplications, as the next clause e...
Isaiah 26:16 LORD H3068 trouble H6862 visited H6485 (H8804) out H6694 (H8804) prayer H3908 chastening H4148...
FOR IN CONTRAST TO THE LEADERS OF THE NATIONS GOD'S PEOPLE WILL LIVE AND RISE AGAIN WHILE BEFORE THIS THE WORLD MUST FACE ITS JUDGMENT (ISAIAH 26:16). Isaiah now makes the context of what he is saying...
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...
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...
_Lord, in trouble have they visited Thee_ GOD A HARBOUR OF REFUGE It is a blessed loss that makes us find our God! What we gain is in finitely more than what we have lost. What a mercy that God is w...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 26:16 The nation’s historic pattern of failure (THEY, v. Isaiah 26:16) is continued by the present generation (we
PRAYER IN TROUBLE Isaiah 26:16. _“Lord, in trouble,”_ &c. Every man knows what trouble is; what it is to lie under the chastening hand of God. In the day of trouble, we feel our dependence on externa...
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 1:15; 2 Chronicles 33:12; 2 Chronicles 33:13; 2 Chronicles 6:37;...