We — We have had the torment of a woman in child — bearing, but not the comfort of a living child, for we have brought forth nothing but wind; all our labours and hopes were unsuccessful. The world — The Assyrians, or our other enemies.
Verse Isaiah 26:18. _WE HAVE - BROUGHT FORTH WIND_] The learned Professor _Michaelis_ explains this image in the following manner: "Rariorem morbum describi, empneumatosin, aut ventosam molam, dictum...
WE HAVE BEEN ... - This refers to sorrows and calamities which they had experienced in former times, when they had made great efforts for deliverance, and when those efforts had proved abortive. Perha...
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...
NEITHER HAVE THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD FALLEN. nor did the inhabitants of the world come to the light: i.e. by being born. The Hebrew _naphal,_ to fall, is used of birth, as Hebrew. _nephel_ occurs...
The poet plunges abruptly into a train of reflection on the depressing side of the nation's experience....
Retaining the figure the prophet dwells on the abortive issue of the nation's prayers and sufferings. In the last clause he seems even to give the figure a closer application. For that sentence is no...
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...
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. BROUGHT FOR...
1. SALVATION, etc.] the assurance of divine protection takes the place of material bulwarks....
The fruitlessness of human effort. FALLEN] i.e. been born....
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:...
WE HAVE AS IT WERE BROUGHT FORTH WIND. — Left to themselves, the longing expectations of Israel had been frustrated. It was, “as it were” (the words imply the prophet’s consciousness of the boldness o...
הָרִ֣ינוּ חַ֔לְנוּ כְּמֹ֖ו יָלַ֣דְנוּ ר֑וּחַ יְשׁוּעֹת֙...
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...
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth (r) wind; we have not wrought any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of (s) the world fallen. (r) O...
_Wind. Our expectation of aid from others has been disappointed. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "the spirit of thy salvation, which thou hast wrought on the earth. We shall not fall, but the inhabitants of...
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...
18._We have as it were brought forth wind. _The second thing to be remarked is, that he goes beyond the limit of the metaphor; for when there is no end to their distresses, the condition of the godly...
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...
WE HAVE BEEN WITH CHILD,.... Like women with child; we have been full of hopes and expectations of great things, of deliverance from our enemies, and of the kingdom of Christ being at hand: WE HAVE B...
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. Ver. 18. _We...
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...
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have, as it were, brought forth wind, this being ever the result of man's sinfulness, of his life without God, which is all vanity; WE HAVE NOT WROUGH...
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...
WE HAVE BEEN WITH CHILD, WE HAVE BEEN IN PAIN, WE HAVE AS IT WERE BROUGHT FORTH WIND; we have had the torment of a woman in child-bearing, but not the comfort of a living child, 1 THESSALONIANS 16:21,...
Isaiah 26:18 child H2029 (H8804) pain H2342 (H8804) were H3644 forth H3205 (H8804) wind H7307 accomplished...
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...
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
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 John 5:19; 1 Samuel 11:13; 1 Samuel 14:45; 2 Kings 19:3; Exodus 5:22