The storm of judgment is about to burst on the world, but it will be of short duration; let the people seclude themselves in the privacy of their chambers and wait for a glorious salvation (cf. Zephaniah 2:3; Daniel 12:13).
Verse Isaiah 26:20. _COME, MY PEOPLE, ENTER THOU INTO THY CHAMBERS_] An exhortation to patience and resignation under oppression, with a confident expectation of deliverance by the power of God manif...
COME, MY PEOPLE - This is an epilogue (Rosenmuller), in which the choir addresses the people, and entreats them to be tranquil during that convulsion by which their oppressors would be punished, and t...
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...
ISAIAH 26:20 TO ISAIAH 27:1. LET YAHWEH'S PEOPLE TAKE SHELTER, FOR HE IS ABOUT TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT. Here the apocalypse is resumed. The Jews are warned that Yahweh's indignation is about to break loos...
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DISCOURSE: 896 THE ONLY REFUGE OF SINNERS Isaiah 26:20. _Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignati...
COME, MY PEOPLE— These verses contain the _conclusion_ wherewith the prophet, speaking in the name of God, seals and confirms the hope of the pious—delivered in the preceding verses. He exhorts them 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...
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. COME, MY PEOPLE, ENTER THOU INTO THY CH...
1. SALVATION, etc.] the assurance of divine protection takes the place of material bulwarks....
Israel may retire and be secure, while the divine judgments pass by....
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:...
COME, MY PEOPLE, ENTER THOU INTO THY CHAMBERS. — The vision of the judgments and the glory of the future leads the prophet to his work as a preacher of repentance in the present. His people also need...
לֵ֤ךְ עַמִּי֙ בֹּ֣א בַ חֲדָרֶ֔יךָ וּֽ סְגֹ֥ר
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...
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...
Come, my people, (x) enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation shall be past. (x) He exhorts the faithful to be p...
_Away, and Cambyses be destroyed, Ezechiel xxxviii. 11. (Calmet)_...
Oh! what blessedness is contained in these words! and what a blessedness have thousands now in glory, found in them, when upon earth! If I mistake not, here are all the persons of the Godhead inviting...
20._Come, my people. _In this verse he exhorts the children of God to exercise patience, to shut themselves up, and to bear with moderation their troubles and afflictions, and to stand unmoved in oppo...
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...
COME, MY PEOPLE, ENTER THOU INTO THY CHAMBERS,.... These words are either to be connected with the preceding verse Isaiah 26:19, and considered as a part of the song; and then the design of them is,...
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. Ver. 20. _Come, my people._] Thus God lov...
_Come, my people_, &c. These two verses are supposed not to belong to the song which takes up the preceding part of the chapter, but to be an address of the prophet to the people of God on the content...
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, hiding while God takes vengeance upon the ungodly, AND SHUT THY DOORS ABOUT THEE, to be secure from disturbance; HIDE THYSELF, AS IT WERE, FOR A LITTLE M...
Concluding Scenes from the World's History...
20,21 When dangers threaten, it is good to retire and lie hid; when we commend ourselves to God to hide us, he will hide us either under heaven or in heaven. Thus we shall be safe and happy in the mi...
Having foretold the wonderful deliverance and great happiness of God's people, and the utter destruction of their enemies, lest they should think they were now entering into the possession of this fel...
Isaiah 26:20 Come H3212 (H8798) people H5971 enter H935 (H8798) chambers H2315 shut H5462 (H8798) doors...
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-...
We will read a short passage in the Book of the prophet Isaiah, commencing with the twenty-sixth chapter, and the twentieth verse. Isaiah 26:20. _Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and sh...
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...
_Come, My people, enter thou into thy chambers_ A GRACIOUS INVITATION I. THE FORM OF THE INVITATION, including in it the qualified subject. “Come, My people.” God’s own peculiar people, who have chos...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 26:20 SHUT YOUR DOORS. Contrast “open the gates” in v. Isaiah 26:2. Isaiah alludes to...
GOD’S INVITATION TO SHELTER _(For a Time of National Distress.)_ Isaiah 26:20. _Come, my people, &c._ The history of humanity as a whole, and of nations and communities as a part, is like that of in...
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...
2 Corinthians 4:17; Exodus 12:22; Exodus 12:23; Ezekiel 11:16; Ge
Shut thy doors — Withdraw thyself from the world, and pour out thy prayers to God in thy closet. Indignation — The dreadful effects of God's anger, mentioned in the following verse....