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Isaiah 26:1
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At that time people will sing this song in Judah: We have a strong city with strong walls and defenses. But God gives us our salvation.
In that day, everyone in the land of Judah will sing this song: Our city is strong! We are surrounded by the walls of God's salvation.
In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation he will appoint for walls and bulwarks.
At that time people will sing this song in Judah: We have a strong city. God protects us with its strong walls and defenses.
At that time this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city! The Lord 's deliverance, like walls and a rampart, makes it secure.
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.
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; He sets up salvation as walls and ramparts.
In that dai this song schal be sungun in the lond of Juda. The citee of oure strengthe; the sauyour schal be set ther ynne, the wal and the `fore wal.
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city. Salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.
The time is coming when the people of Judah will sing this song: "Our city is protected. The Lord is our fortress, and he gives us victory.
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
In that day will this song be made in the land of Judah: We have a strong town; he will make salvation our walls and towers.
On that day this song will be sung in the land of Y'hudah: "We have a strong city! He has built walls and ramparts for our safety.
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation doth he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; walls and bulwarks doth He appoint for salvation.
In that day shall this song bee sung in the land of Iudah; Wee haue a strong citie, saluation will God appoint for walles and bulwarkes.
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city. The Lord saves us and puts up walls to keep us safe.
On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; he sets up victory like walls and bulwarks.
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Iudah, We haue a strong citie: saluation shal God set for walles and bulwarkes.
IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: O city whose salvation has prevailed, build the walls and the bulwarks;
In that day, shall be sung this song, in the land of Judah, - A strong city, have we! Salvation, will he set for walls and rampart,
In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.
In that day shall this song be song in the land of Iuda, we haue a strong citie, saluation shal God appoint in steede of walles and bulwarkes.
In that day they shall sing this song in the land of Judea; Behold a strong city; and he shall make salvation its wall and bulwark.
A day is coming when the people will sing this song in the land of Judah: Our city is strong! God himself defends its walls!
On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Yehudah: we have a strong city; yeshu`ah will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
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.
On that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up victory like walls and ramparts!
In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: A strong city is ours; He sets up salvation as our walls and rampart.
In that day sung is this song in the land of Judah: `We have a strong city, Salvation He doth make walls and bulwark.
Then shal this songe be sunge in the londe of Iuda: We haue a stroge citie, the walles & the ordinauce shal kepe vs.
At that time, this song will be sung in the country of Judah: We have a strong city, Salvation City, built and fortified with salvation. Throw wide the gates so good and true people can enter. People with their minds set on you, you keep completely whole, Steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don't quit. Depend on God and keep at it because in the Lord God you have a sure thing. Those who lived high and mighty he knocked off their high horse. He used the city built on the hill as fill for the marshes. All the exploited and outcast peoples build their lives on the reclaimed land.
On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:"We have a strong city;He sets up walls and ramparts for salvation.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
that day: Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:20, Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 24:21-23, Isaiah 25:9
this song: Isaiah 5:1, Isaiah 27:1, Isaiah 27:2, Exodus 15:2-21, Numbers 21:17, Judges 5:1-31, 2 Samuel 22:1-51, Jeremiah 33:11, Ephesians 5:19, Ephesians 5:20, Revelation 19:1-7
in the land: Ezra 3:11, Psalms 137:3, Psalms 137:4
salvation: Isaiah 60:18, Isaiah 62:11, Psalms 31:21, Psalms 48:12, Zechariah 2:5, Matthew 16:18, Revelation 21:12-22
Reciprocal: Isaiah 24:14 - General Isaiah 30:29 - Ye shall Isaiah 33:16 - his place Isaiah 48:20 - with a voice Isaiah 49:16 - thy walls Isaiah 52:8 - with Ezekiel 40:5 - a wall Ezekiel 42:20 - it had Ezekiel 48:31 - General Hosea 2:18 - in that day Nahum 1:7 - strong hold Zechariah 9:8 - I will Zechariah 14:11 - shall be safely inhabited Philippians 3:20 - conversation Colossians 3:16 - and spiritual
Cross-References
After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.
Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
And the Lord appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.
And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."
That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, "We have found water."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah,.... When great things shall be done: for the church and people of God; and when antichrist and all their enemies are destroyed, as mentioned in the preceding chapter Isaiah 25:1; then this song shall be sung expressed in this throughout; which the Targum calls a "new" song, an excellent one, as the matter of it shows; and which will be sung in the land of Judah, the land of praise in the congregation of the saints, the professors and confessors of the name of Jesus: in Mount Zion, the church of God below, Psalms 149:1:
we have a strong city; not an earthly one, as Jerusalem; so the Jewish writers, Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi, interpret it; nor the heavenly city, which God has prepared and built, and saints are looking for, and are citizens of: but rather the holy city, the New Jerusalem, described in Revelation 21:2 or however, the church of Christ, as in the latter day; which will be a "strong" one, being of the Lord's founding, establishing, keeping, and defending; and whose strength will greatly lie in the presence of God, and his protection of it; in the number of its citizens, which will be many, when Jews and Gentiles are converted; and in their union one with another, and the steadfastness of their faith in Christ; when a "small one", as the church is now, shall become a "strong nation", Isaiah 60:22:
salvation will [God] appoint [for] walls and bulwarks; instead of walls, ditches, parapets, counterscarps, and such like fortifications; what they are to cities, that is salvation to the church and people of God; it is their safety and security: as God the Father is concerned in it, it flows from his love, which is unchangeable; it is by an appointment of his, which is unalterable; is secured by election grace, which stands not upon the works of men, but the will of God; and by the covenant of grace, ordered in all things, and sure; and by his power the saints are kept unto it: as Christ is concerned in it, it is as walls and bulwarks; he is the author of it, has completely finished it, and has overcome and destroyed all enemies; his righteousness is a security from all charges and condemnation; his satisfaction a bulwark against the damning power of sin, the curses of the law, and the wrath of God; his mediation and intercession are a protection of saints; and his almighty power a guard about them. As the Spirit is concerned in it, who is the applier of it, and evidences interest in it; it is a bulwark against sin, against Satan's temptations, against a spirit of bondage to fear, against error, and a final and total falling away; particularly the church's "walls" will be "salvation", and her "gates" praise, of which in the next verse Isaiah 26:2, in the latter day glory; to which this song refers; see Isaiah 60:18.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In that day shall this song be sung - By the people of God, on their restoration to their own land.
We have a strong city - Jerusalem. This does not mean that it was then strongly fortified, but that God would guard it, and that thus it would be strong. Jerusalem was easily capable of being strongly fortified Psalms 25:2; but the idea here is, that Yahweh would be a protector, and that this would constitute its strength.
Salvation will God appoint for walls - That is, he will himself be the defender of his people in the place of walls and bulwarks. A similar expression occurs in Isaiah 60:18 (see also Jeremiah 3:23, and Zechariah 2:5).
Bulwarks - This word means properly bastions, or ramparts. The original means properly a pomoerium, or antemural defense; a space without the wall of a city raised up like a small wall. The Syriac renders it, Bar shuro, - ‘Son of a wall,’ meaning a small wall. It was usually a breastwork, or heap of earth thrown up around the city, that constituted an additional defense, so that if they were driven from that they could retreat within the walls.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XXVI
This chapter, like the foregoing, is a song of praise, in
which thanksgivings for temporal and spiritual mercies are
beautifully mingled, though the latter still predominate. Even
the sublime and evangelical doctrine of the resurrection seems
here to be hinted at, and made to typify the deliverance of
the people of God from a state of the lowest misery; the
captivity, the general dispersion, or both. This hymn too,
like the preceding, is beautifully diversified by the frequent
change of speakers. It opens with a chorus of the Church,
celebrating the protection vouchsafed by God to his people;
and the happiness of the righteous, whom he guards, contrasted
with the misery of the wicked, whom he punishes, 1-7.
To this succeeds their own pious resolution of obeying,
trusting, and delighting in God, 8.
Here the prophet breaks in, in his own person, eagerly catching
the last words of the chorus, which were perfectly in unison
with the feelings of his own soul, and which he beautifully
repeats, as one musical instrument reverberates the sound of
another on the same key with it. He makes likewise a suitable
response to what had been said on the judgments of God, and
observes their different effects on the good and the bad;
improving the one, and hardening the other, 9-11.
After this, a chorus of Jews express their gratitude to God
for past deliverances, make confession of their sins, and
supplicate his power, which they had been long expecting,
12-18.
To this God makes a gracious reply, promising deliverance that
should be as life from the dead, 19.
And the prophet, (apparently alluding to the command of Moses
to the Israelites, when the destroying angel was to go through
the land of Egypt,) concludes with exhorting his people to
patience and resignation, till God sends the deliverance he
has promised, 20, 21.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXVI
Verse Isaiah 26:1. We have a strong city — In opposition to the city of the enemy, which God hath destroyed, Isaiah 25:2. Isaiah 25:2.
Salvation - for walls and bulwarks — חומת וחל chomoth vachel, walls and redoubts, or the walls and the ditch. חל chel properly signifies the ditch or trench without the wall; see Kimchi. The same rabbin says, This song refers to the time of salvation, i.e., the days of the Messiah.
