Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 26:17
As a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy (q) sight, O LORD.
(q) That is, in extreme sorrow.
As a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy (q) sight, O LORD.
(q) That is, in extreme sorrow.
LIKE AS A WOMAN WITH CHILD ... - This verse is designed to state their griefs and sorrows during the time of their oppression in Babylon. The comparison used here is one that is very frequent in the s...
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...
LIKE AS. WOMAN. &C. These refer to the birth-pangs of the Great Tribulation, which issue in the new nation....
The poet plunges abruptly into a train of reflection on the depressing side of the nation's experience....
The agony of the crisis is compared to the pangs of a woman in travail, a common figure, Hosea 13:13; Micah 4:10, &c. _in thy sight_ Or, BECAUSE OF THEE Thy chastening hand....
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...
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. LIKE AS A WOMAN WITH CHILD - an image of angui...
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:...
LIKE AS A WOMAN WITH CHILD. — This, as in Matthew 24:8; John 16:21, comes as the most natural image of longing, painful expectation, followed by great joy....
כְּמֹ֤ו הָרָה֙ תַּקְרִ֣יב לָ לֶ֔דֶת תָּחִ֥יל...
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...
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...
17._As a woman with child. _Here two things ought chiefly to be remarked. First, he compares believers to women in labor, who, we know, endure exquisite pain; and, accordingly, he says that their angu...
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...
LIKE AS A WOMAN WITH CHILD,.... By this simile are set forth the great distresses and afflictions the church of Christ will be in, before redemption and deliverance from the antichristian yoke comes:...
Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. Ver. 17. _So have we been in thy sight._] He...
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...
Like as a woman with child that draweth near the time of her delivery is in pain and crieth out in her pangs, so have we been in Thy sight, O Lord. The more unendurable the affliction seemed, the near...
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...
SO HAVE WE BEEN, such was our anguish and danger, in thy sight; whilst thou didst only look upon us like a mere spectator, without affording us the least degree of pity or help. Or this phrase notes o...
Isaiah 26:17 As H3644 child H2030 pain H2342 (H8799) out H2199 (H8799) pangs H2256 near H7126 ...
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 Thessalonians 5:3; Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 21:3; Jeremiah 30:6; J
Like — Such was our anguish and danger....