Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 26:3
Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] (d) mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
(d) You have decreed so, and your purpose cannot be changed.
Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] (d) mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
(d) You have decreed so, and your purpose cannot be changed.
Verse Isaiah 26:3. _IN PERFECT PEACE_] שלום שלום _shalom, shalom_, "peace, peace," i.e., peace upon peace - all kinds of _prosperity_ - happiness in this world and in the world to come. _BECAUSE HE...
THOU WILT KEEP HIM - The following verses to Isaiah 26:11, contain moral and religious reflections, and seem designed to indicate the resignation evinced by the ‘righteous nation’ during their long af...
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...
PERFECT PEACE. Hebrew peace, peace. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_, for emphasis, beautifully expressed In the Authorized Version. The same expression occurs in Isaiah 57:19, indicating the unity of the...
A stricter rendering might be: A STEADFAST DISPOSITION THOU GUARDEST IN CONSTANT PEACE (lit. "peace, peace"), FOR IT IS TRUSTFUL TOWARDS THEE (see R.V. marg.). The word for "disposition" is elsewhere...
DISCOURSE: 894 TRUST IN GOD RECOMMENDED Isaiah 26:3. _Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord_ J...
C. JUSTICE AT LAST FOR JUDAH, CHAPTER 26 1. JUSTICE'S ORIGIN TEXT: Isaiah 26:1-6 1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for wel...
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. THOU WILT KEEP (HIM) IN PERFECT PEACE (LITERALLY, PEACE, PEACE) (WHOSE) MIND (IS) STAYED - (Psalms 112:...
26:3 peace (d-6) Lit. 'in peace, peace.'...
1. SALVATION, etc.] the assurance of divine protection takes the place of material bulwarks....
Firm trust in God is the essential rule that directs the believer’s life. It is not a declaration of trust in God on just one occasion. It is the constant practice of trust in him all through life. •...
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:...
THOU WILT KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE. — The italics show that the English version is made up with several interpolated words. More literally, and more impressively, we read, _Thou establishest a purpos...
יֵ֣צֶר סָמ֔וּךְ תִּצֹּ֖ר שָׁלֹ֣ום ׀ שָׁלֹ֑ום כִּ֥י...
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...
_Away: condemning the virtuous, as if they were fools. (Menochius) --- Symmachus, "our work, or fiction, is taken away." Hebrew may have other meanings. (Haydock)_...
The first of these verses is a blessed promise; and the second is the foundation of the enjoyment of it. Some read the last phrase of it (and indeed the margin of our old Bibles preserve the reading s...
3._The thought is fixed; thou wilt keep peace, peace. _(156) As the Hebrew word יצר (_Yĕtzĕr_) signifies both “imagination” or “creature,” and “thought,” some render it, “By a settled foundation thou...
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...
THOU WILT KEEP [HIM] IN PERFECT PEACE,.... Peace with God in Christ through his blood, in a way of believing, and as the fruit and effect of his righteousness being received by faith; this is not alwa...
Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee. Ver. 3. _Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace._] Heb., Peace, peace - that is, a multiplied peac...
_Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace_ Hebrew, _in peace, peace;_ peace with God, and peace of conscience; peace at all times, and under all events; _whose mind is stayed on thee_ Hebrew, יצר סמוךְ, _t...
THE CHURCH'S SONG OF PRAISE...
Thou, namely, Jehovah, WILT KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE WHOSE MIND IS STAYED ON THEE, the peace of God which passeth all understanding resting upon all those who belong to the spiritual Israel and cling...
PERFECT PEACE: _ Heb._ peace, peace MIND: Or, thought, or imagination...
1-4 "That day," seems to mean when the New Testament Babylon shall be levelled with the ground. The unchangeable promise and covenant of the Lord are the walls of the church of God. The gates of this...
Heb. _The fixed thought or mind_ (i.e. the man whose mind and thoughts are fixed and settled upon thee by faith as the next clause explains it, the qualifications being put for the person so qualified...
Isaiah 26:3 keep H5341 (H8799) perfect H7965 peace H7965 mind H3336 stayed H5564 (H8803) trusts H982 ...
THE SONG OF DELIVERANCE AND THE STRONG CITY (ISAIAH 26:1). The first four verses of chapter 26 with their description of the strong city of God with its walls and bulwarks of salvation, which is for t...
TRUSTETH (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee_ PERFECT PEACE The Scriptures are full of priceless secrets, and here is one of them--the secret of trust in God as revealed to us...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 26:3 PERFECT PEACE. The peace described here is first the corporate peace of the city (v. Isaiah 26:1) and the nation (v....
PERFECT PEACE Isaiah 26:3. _Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, &c._ Our text points to the infallible remedy for the worst of all forms of human ills, a burdened and disconsolate spirit—“perfect p...
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 Chronicles 5:20; 2 Chronicles 13:18; 2 Chronicles 16:8; Ephesians 2:14;...