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Isaiah 26:17 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 26 · verse 17
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.Isaiah 26:17 · King James Version
Isaiah 26:17 in context
15Thou 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.
16LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
17Like 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.
18We 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.
19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- deliveryyâladto bear youngH3205 →
- childhârehpregnantH2030 →
- pangschebela rope , especially a measuring lineH2256 →
- sightpânîymthe faceH6440 →
- Likekᵉmôwa form of the prefix 'k-', but used separately as, thus, soH3644 →
- nearqârabto approach for whatever purposeH7126 →
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The prophet in these verses looks back upon what God had done with them, both in mercy and judgment, and sings unto God of both, and then looks forward upon what he hoped God would do for them. Observe, I. His reviews and reflections are mixed. When he looks back upon the state of the church he finds, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-19