the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Isaiah 26:2
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Open the gates for the good people to enter. They are the God's faithful followers.
Open the gates to all who are righteous; allow the faithful to enter.
Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.
Open the gates, and the good people will enter, those who follow God.
Open the gates so a righteous nation can enter— one that remains trustworthy.
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.
"Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful and trustworthy.
Opene ye the yatis, and the iust folk schal entre, kepynge treuthe.
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth truth may enter in.
Open the gates that a righteous nation may enter-one that remains faithful.
Open the city gates for a law-abiding nation that is faithful to God.
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth faith may enter in.
Let the doors be open, so that the upright nation which keeps faith may come in.
Open the gates! Let the righteous nation enter, a nation that keeps faith!
Open ye the gates, and the righteous nation which keepeth faithfulness shall enter in.
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation that keepeth faithfulness may enter in.
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the trueth may enter in.
Open the gates, that the nation that is right with God may come in, the one that keeps faithful.
Open the gates, so that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
Open ye the gates that the righteous nation, which keepeth the trueth, may enter in.
Open the gates, that the righteous peoples who keep faith and that the truth may enter in.
Open ye the gates, - That there may enter in - a righteous nation preserving fidelity.
Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth, enter in.
Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.
Open ye the gates, that the righteous people whiche kepeth the trueth may enter in.
Open ye the gates, let the nation enter that keeps righteousness, and keeps truth,
Open the city gates and let the faithful nation enter, the nation whose people do what is right.
Open the gatesso a righteous nation can come in—one that remains faithful.
Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
Open the gates so that the righteous nation who keeps faithfulness may enter!
Open the gates, and the righteous nation shall come in, keeping faithfulness.
Open ye the gates, that enter may a righteous nation, Preserving stedfastness.
Ope ye gates, yt the good people maye go in, which laboureth for the treuth.
"Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful.
Open the gates, That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
"Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful.
Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter,The one that keeps faithfulness.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Open: Isaiah 60:11, Isaiah 62:10, Psalms 118:20, Ezekiel 48:31-34, Zechariah 8:20, Acts 2:47, Revelation 21:24
righteous: Isaiah 60:21, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 4:6-8, Psalms 106:5, 1 Peter 2:9, 2 Peter 3:13, Revelation 5:9
truth: Heb. truths, Jude 1:3
Reciprocal: Psalms 24:7 - Lift Psalms 118:19 - Open Isaiah 51:4 - O my Jeremiah 33:6 - and will Zechariah 2:5 - a wall Matthew 21:43 - a nation Philippians 3:20 - conversation
Cross-References
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord , who had appeared to him.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."
the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
Trust in the Lord , and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Open ye the gates,.... Not of Jerusalem, literally understood, nor of heaven; rather of the New Jerusalem, whose gates are described, Revelation 21:12 at least of the church in the latter day; the gates or door into which now should be, and then will be, open; Christ the door, and faith in him, and a profession of it, without which none ought to be admitted, and whoever climbs up another way is a thief and a robber, John 10:1 these words are the words of the prophet, or of God, or of Christ by him, directed not to the keepers of the gates of Jerusalem, or of the doors of the temple, though, they may be alluded to; nor to any supposed doorkeeper of heaven, angels, or men, there being none such; rather to the twelve angels, at the twelve gates of the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21:12 or to the ministers of the Gospel, who have the key of knowledge to open the door of faith, and let persons into the knowledge of divine things; to admit them to ordinances, and receive them into the church by the joint suffrage of the members of it. The phrase denotes a large increase of members, and a free, open, and public reception of them, who are after described; see Isaiah 60:11:
that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in; not all the world, for there is none righteous, not one of them naturally, or of themselves; nor the Jewish nation, for though they sought after righteousness, did not attain it, unless when they will be converted in the latter day, and then they, and all the Lord's people, will be righteous, and appear to be a holy nation, and a peculiar people,
Isaiah 60:21 and being made righteous by the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, and sanctified by the Spirit, will be fit persons to be admitted through the gates into the city; see
Psalms 118:19 and because there will be great numbers of such, especially when a nation shall be born at once, hence they are so called: and these will be a set of men that "will keep the truth"; not, as the Targum renders it,
"who keep the law with a perfect heart;''
for no man can do that; but rather the ordinances of the Gospel, as they were first delivered by Christ and his apostles, and especially the truths of it; and the word here used is in the plural number, and may be rendered "truths"; the several truths of the Gospel, which will be kept by the righteous, not in memory only, but in their hearts and affections, and in their purity, and with a pure conscience; and they will not part with them at any rate, but hold them fast, that no man take their crown, Revelation 3:11.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Open ye the gates - This is probably the language of a chorus responding to the sentiment in Isaiah 26:1. The captive people are returning; and this cry is made that the gates of the city may be thrown open, and that they may be permitted to enter without obstruction (compare Psalms 24:7, Psalms 24:9; Psalms 118:19).
That the righteous nation which keepeth the truth - Who, during their long captivity and contact with pagan nations, have not apostatized from the true religion, but have adhered firmly to the worship of the true God. This was doubtless true of the great body of the captive Jews in Babylon.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 26:2. The righteous nation — The converted Gentiles shall have the gates opened - a full entrance into all the glories and privileges of the Gospel; being fellow heirs with the converted Jews. The Jewish peculiarity is destroyed, for the middle wall of partition is broken down.
The truth — The Gospel itself - as the fulfilment of all the ancient types, shadows, and ceremonies; and therefore termed the truth, in opposition to all those shadowy rites and ceremonies. "The law was given by Moses; but grace and TRUTH came by Jesus Christ;" John 1:17, and John 1:17.
