![]() Their victory must therefore lie in the future, when their bodies will be triumphantly raised from death (19). Many of the godly have died without seeing any victory (16-18). They feel the disappointment and frustration of a woman who suffers birth pains but produces no child. All their efforts and all their expectations have come to nothing. ![]() The righteous then recall how they have cried to God in their distress, but have received no apparent answer. Their numbers increase, and God’s blessing spreads throughout the land (14-15). In due course, however, the enemies are destroyed, but the righteous have peace. The righteous know that God cares for them, and they respond with loyalty to him, even when they are oppressed by their enemies (12-13). The ungodly do not know God and so cannot live uprightly (10-11). ![]() They desire this knowledge for others also, because only when people know God can they truly know what righteousness is (7-9). Godly people long to know God and his ways better, so that they can live righteously according to his directions. God’s city stands for ever the world’s city is smashed to the ground and trampled in the dust (4-6). Those who trust in him have stability and security, but those who trust in themselves are overthrown. It is a city for the righteous, an eternal dwelling place for those who have experienced the perfect peace that comes through complete trust in God (26:1-3). Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.Ģ0 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.Ģ1 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.Having destroyed the city built by human hands (that is, humankind’s whole ungodly way of life 25:2), God now builds his city. – Isaiah 26:3 In concordance Verse detailsġ 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.Ģ Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.ģ Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.Ĥ Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength:ĥ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high the lofty city, he layeth it low he layeth it low, even to the ground he bringeth it even to the dust.Ħ The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.ħ The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.Ĩ Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.ĩ 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.ġ0 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.ġ1 Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.ġ2 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.ġ3 O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.ġ4 They are dead, they shall not live they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.ġ5 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.ġ6 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.ġ7 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.ġ8 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.ġ9 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. ![]() Most searchec verse in Isaiah 26 with 8,100 average monthly searches on Google.
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