Isaiah · WEB-C
Isaiah
26
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In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks. See also: Isaiah 62:11Isaiah 60:18Zechariah 2:5Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith. See also: Revelation 5:91 Peter 2:9Isaiah 60:11You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you. See also: Philippians 4:7John 16:33John 14:27Trust in the LORD forever; for in the LORD, the LORD, is an everlasting Rock. See also: Isaiah 12:2Psalms 62:8Philippians 4:13For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust. See also: Job 40:11-13Jeremiah 51:37Revelation 18:2The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.” See also: Romans 16:20Luke 10:19Revelation 2:26The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level. See also: Ephesians 2:10Isaiah 42:161 John 3:10Yes, in the way of your judgments, LORD, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. See also: James 5:7-11Psalms 37:3-7Isaiah 33:2With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. See also: Matthew 6:33Psalms 63:1Psalms 119:62Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see the LORD’s majesty. See also: John 5:37-38Hosea 11:7Romans 2:4-5LORD, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries. See also: Hebrews 10:27Isaiah 5:24Micah 5:9LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us. See also: Ephesians 2:10Psalms 57:2Psalms 29:11LORD our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but we will only acknowledge your name. See also: Isaiah 2:8Isaiah 63:7Isaiah 51:22The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish. See also: Proverbs 10:7Revelation 18:2-3Habakkuk 2:18-20You have increased the nation, O LORD. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land. See also: Isaiah 9:3Revelation 11:15-18John 15:8LORD, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them. See also: Hosea 5:15Psalms 50:15Jeremiah 22:23Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, LORD. See also: John 16:21Isaiah 21:3Isaiah 13:8We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. See also: Hosea 13:13Psalms 17:142 Kings 19:3Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits. See also: Daniel 12:2Ezekiel 37:1-14Matthew 27:52Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past. See also: Psalms 30:5Psalms 27:5Isaiah 54:7-8For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain. See also: Revelation 6:9-11Jude 1:14-15Isaiah 13:11
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)19 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 26:1
Ver. 1. Day. Under the law of grace, Christians sing this and such like canticles.
W. --- Sion.
This word is not in Heb. &c. though it be understood. C. --- Other nations have their respective cities. All Christians admit this one. W. --- The captives continue to return thanks. Yet the Holy Ghost speaks chiefly of the Church, and of the general resurrection. C. --- Bulwark. Faith and good works. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 26:2
Ver. 2. Truth. The Jews who returned from Babylon, were more virtuous than their ancestors, as the prophets intimate; though they have Christians principally in view.
↑ 2Isaiah 26:3
Ver. 3. Away: condemning the virtuous, as if they were fools. M. --- Sym. "our work, or fiction, is taken away." Heb. may have other meanings. H.
↑ 3Isaiah 26:4
Ver. 4. You, people of Juda.
↑ 4Isaiah 26:5
Ver. 5. High: Nabuchodonosor and his empire.
↑ 5Isaiah 26:6
Ver. 6. Needy. The Jews shall behold the ruin of the city by Cyrus, (C.) who was of a contemptible nation. H.
↑ 6Isaiah 26:7
Ver. 7. In. God will remove every obstacle, at their return.
↑ 7Isaiah 26:9
Ver. 9. Night of distress.
↑ 9Isaiah 26:10
Ver. 10. Justice. Clemency would therefore be ill placed. If the Israelites had not been led away captives, would they ever have been reformed?
↑ 10Isaiah 26:11
Ver. 11. Not see. Let them perish, or live to witness the glory of the Jews.
↑ 11Isaiah 26:12
Ver. 12. Works, both in punishing and rewarding. C. --- God crowns his own gifts. E.
↑ 12Isaiah 26:13
Ver. 13. Lords of Babylon, (C.) and our own passions. H.
↑ 13Isaiah 26:14
Ver. 14. Giants; the proud emperors of Babylon, whom thou wilt destroy. Sept.
"physicians;" as Rephaim has also this meaning.
↑ 14Isaiah 26:15
Ver. 15. Nation of the Jews. C. --- Sept. "add evils to them, O Lord; add evils to the nobles of the land." H. --- Heb. may have the same sense. --- Ends: princes, or the Chaldees, sending them also into captivity; or thou hast propagated thy Church over the world.
↑ 15Isaiah 26:16
Ver. 16. They. Sept. "We," &c. C. --- Affliction is a wholesome medicine. H.
↑ 16Isaiah 26:18
Ver. 18. Wind. Our expectation of aid from others has been disappointed. C. ---
Sept. "the spirit of thy salvation, which thou hast wrought on the earth. We shall not fall, but the inhabitants of the earth shall fall." H. --- Their copies must have been different from ours. --- Fallen. The Chanaanites are left for our trial and punishment. C.
↑ 18Isaiah 26:19
Ver. 19. Dead: a civil death, shall regain their liberty; and those who have left this world in a state of virtue, shall be happy. --- Ruin. Cyrus liberated the Jews, having conquered Babylon.
↑ 19Isaiah 26:20
Ver. 20. Away, and Cambyses be destroyed. Ezec. xxxviii. 11. C.
↑ 20Isaiah 26:21
Ver. 21. Shall cover her stain no more. This is said with relation to the martyrs, and their happy resurrection. Ch. --- The blood of the saints shall demand vengeance. C.
↑ 21License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses