The first half of the verse completes the thought of Isaiah 26:8; the second is linked to Isaiah 26:10. The speaker is the individualised community.
will I seek thee early Rather, I seek thee earnestly.
9 b, 10. The motive of this eager longing for judgment is the conviction that only by this method can the world be brought to the practice of righteousness.
Verse Isaiah 26:9. _HAVE I DESIRED THEE_] _Forty-one_ MSS. of Dr. _Kennicott's_ and many of _De Rossi's_, (nine ancient,) and _five_ editions read אויתיך _ivvithicha_. It is proper to note this; becau...
WITH MY SOUL ... IN THE NIGHT - By desiring God in the night, and by seeking him early, is meant that the desire to seek him was unremitted and constant. The prophet speaks of the pious Jews who were...
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...
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9. EARLY. with the dawn. WHEN, &C. Hence the multitudes which come out of the great tribulation in Revelation 7:14....
YEA, IN THE WAY OF THY JUDGMENTS— How excellently does this passage correspond to the preceding, according to the interpretation we have given! The holy confessors, persuaded of the equity and justice...
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...
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness....
1. SALVATION, etc.] the assurance of divine protection takes the place of material bulwarks....
NIGHT] the season of meditation (Psalms 4:4)....
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:...
In the night, it is quiet. There is nothing to interrupt my inner thoughts about God....
WITH MY SOUL HAVE I DESIRED THEE IN THE NIGHT... — Soul and spirit are joined together to express the fulness of personality. The “night” is the time of sorrow and expectation, in which the saints of...
נַפְשִׁ֤י אִוִּיתִ֨יךָ֙ בַּ † לַּ֔יְלָה אַף ־רוּחִ֥י...
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...
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn (h) righteousnes...
_Night of distress._...
Here is a sweet view of a gracious soul in particular, and of the Church, in general, in the silent, humble, waitings on the Lord, as well in providence as grace. I hope the Reader is brought acquaint...
9._My soul hath desired thee. _This is a stronger expression of the former statement; for, having previously spoken in the person of believers, he had said that the desire of their soul was towards Go...
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...
WITH MY SOUL HAVE I DESIRED THEE IN THE NIGHT,.... Either literally, when others were asleep: or figuratively, in the captivity; which, as Jarchi says, was like unto the night; or in the time of Jewis...
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness....
_Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord_ That is, as some understand it, of thine _ordinances_ and _commandments_, in which we carefully and conscientiously walk; or, in the way of thy _chastisement...
With my soul have I desired Thee in the night, in the time of affliction, which deprived him of rest; YEA, WITH MY SPIRIT WITHIN ME WILL I SEEK THEE EARLY, confident that the morning would bring a hap...
THE CHURCH'S SONG OF PRAISE...
5-11 The way of the just is evenness, a steady course of obedience and holy conversation. And it is their happiness that God makes their way plain and easy. It is our duty, and will be our comfort, t...
WITH MY SOUL; sincerely and most affectionately, as PSALMS 63:1, and elsewhere. HAVE I: the prophet speaks this in the name of all God's people, by comparing this with the foregoing verse. In the nigh...
Isaiah 26:9 soul H5315 desired H183 (H8765) night H3915 spirit H7307 within H7130 early H7836 (H8762) judgments...
THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND JUDGMENTS ON THE UNRIGHTEOUS (ISAIAH 26:7). Isaiah 26:7 ‘The way of the righteous is uprightness (altogether right), You (singular) who are upright weigh up the path of...
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-...
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE LOFTY CITY AND THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS (ISAIAH 26:5). Those in the lofty city have no time for righteousness. Even if shown favour or set in a land of uprightness they will...
Isaiah 26:9 I. The Bible is pervaded by the teaching of events. Isaiah is the inspired writer who lays most stress on this teaching. He is full of a great fall which is to come some day to all human p...
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...
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 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...
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...
_With my soul have I desired Thee in the night_ THE RELIGIOUS CRAVING AND SEEKING OF THE SOUL AT NIGHT There is no work so momentous, me influential, as the work of the soul in the sleepless hours o...
_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 26:8 YOU... YOU... YOU. God himself is the one his people wholeheartedly desire. THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD. Desire for God inspires a longing that all would recognize him....
THE USE AND ABUSE OF THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD Isaiah 26:9. _For when Thy judgments, &c._ I. _The judgments of God are frequently in the earth_—such as earthquakes, hurricanes, pestilence, commercial disa...
TRUST AMID TRIALS Isaiah 26:8. _Yea, in the way of Thy judgments … will I seek Thee early_. In this verse the prophet expresses the confiding trust of God’s people amid times of judgment. It is as th...
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...
Hosea 5:15; Isaiah 27:9; Luke 6:12; Mark 1:35; Matthew 6:33;...
In the night — When others are sleeping, my thoughts and desires are working towards God. Early — Betimes in the morning. For — And good reason it is that we should thus desire and seek thee in the wa...