Isaiah 26

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Isaiah 26 is a song to be sung "in that day" in the land of Judah. It celebrates a strong city whose walls are salvation. Its best-known line promises perfect peace to the one whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in the LORD, the Rock eternal. The middle of the song is a prayer of longing and honesty: we have waited for you, we have been like a woman in labor who gave birth only to wind, other lords have ruled us. Then comes one of the Old Testament's clearest words of resurrection: your dead will live, their bodies will rise, awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust. It ends with a call to hide behind shut doors until God's wrath has passed.

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Isaiah 26 is a song written for a day that has not yet come. It imagines Judah singing about a strong city whose walls are salvation, with gates thrown open for a faithful nation, while the proud city that ruled the world lies in the dust under the feet of the poor. In the middle of that vision sits the verse that most people know from this chapter: you will keep in perfect peace the one whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. The Hebrew simply says peace, peace, and the next line gives the reason, that the LORD is a Rock that lasts forever. But the song does not stay on the heights. It turns into a prayer that is honest about the night, about longing for God in the dark, about other lords who have ruled over the people, and, most strikingly, about labor that came to nothing. We were pregnant, the people say, we writhed in pain, and we gave birth to wind. We accomplished no salvation. It is one of the most candid confessions of failure in the Bible, and the answer to it is one of the most astonishing promises. Your dead will live. Their bodies will rise. Wake up and sing, you who sleep in the dust, for your dew is the dew of morning and the earth will give up her dead. Then a final instruction, straight out of the first Passover: go into your rooms, shut the doors, and wait a little while, because the LORD is coming out to set the earth right.

Ключевые места

Isaiah 26:1-4 Isaiah 26:12-15 Isaiah 26:16-19 Isaiah 26:20-21 Daniel 12:2 Exodus 12:22-23

Historical and literary context

The chapter belongs to Isaiah 24 to 27, often called the Isaiah Apocalypse, a section that looks beyond the crises of Isaiah's own eighth century to a judgment of the whole earth and a feast for all peoples. Its "lofty city" is unnamed, standing for every proud power, and its "strong city" is Jerusalem as God will make it. Verse 20, with the people shut in their rooms while wrath passes, echoes the first Passover, when Israel stayed indoors while the destroyer went through Egypt. The resurrection hope of verse 19 stands alongside Daniel 12 as the Old Testament's most explicit statement that the dead will rise, a hope that later Jewish and Christian faith developed fully. Scholars differ on whether the section is from Isaiah or from a later hand.

How the chapter unfolds

Verses 1 to 6 are the song of the strong city and the fall of the lofty one. Verses 7 to 11 describe the path of the righteous, the night-long longing for God, and the observation that the wicked learn nothing from grace but will learn from judgment. Verses 12 to 15 confess that all Israel's achievements are God's doing, that other lords have ruled and are gone, and that God has enlarged the nation. Verses 16 to 18 are the lament of the birth pangs that produced only wind. Verse 19 answers with the promise that the dead will live. Verses 20 and 21 call the people to shelter while the LORD comes out to punish the earth.

Why this chapter matters

Verse 3, "You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You," is one of the most memorized promises in Isaiah; the Hebrew says "peace, peace," and the King James "whose mind is stayed on thee" has shaped hymns and gravestones. Verse 4 gave English the phrase "Rock of Ages." Verse 19 is a foundation text for the doctrine of resurrection and is read at Easter and at funerals. The chapter's honesty in verse 18, that God's people can labor and produce nothing, gives permission for realism in prayer, and its shut doors in verse 20 have been a picture of refuge in God during times of judgment.

Interpretive tension to watch

Verse 14 says the dead will not live and verse 19 says they will, and the two are reconciled only by noticing their subjects: the oppressor lords are gone for good, while God's people will rise. Whether verse 19 means the restoration of the nation, as the dry bones of Ezekiel 37 do, or the bodily resurrection of individuals is debated; most readers hear at least the beginning of the second. Verse 10 says grace does not teach the wicked righteousness, a hard observation that the New Testament partly answers with the kindness of God that leads to repentance. The section's date and the identity of the lofty city remain open.

Вопросы к этой главе

Verse 3 ties peace to a mind that is steadfast. What keeps a mind fixed on God when circumstances are not peaceful?
Verse 18 admits that the people's struggle "gave birth to wind." Why is that confession placed just before the promise of resurrection?
Verse 20 tells the people to hide for a little while. When is waiting behind shut doors an act of faith rather than fear?

Study with context

Use this as a chapter guide, then press deeper into the text itself. The goal is to slow down observation, notice structure, and ask better questions before jumping to conclusions.

В заметки

1 그 날에 유다 땅에서 이 노래를 부르리라 우리에게 견고한 성읍이 있음이여 여호와께서 구원으로 성과 곽을 삼으시리로다 2 너희는 문들을 열고 신을 지키는 의로운 나라로 들어오게 할지어다 3 주께서 심지가 견고한 자를 평강에 평강으로 지키시리니 이는 그가 주를 의뢰함이니이다 4 너희는 여호와를 영원히 의뢰하라 주 여호와는 영원한 반석이심이로다 5 높은 데 거하는 자를 낮추시며 솟은 성을 헐어 땅에 엎으시되 진토에 미치게 하셨도다 6 발이 그것을 밟으리니 곧 빈궁한 자의 발과 곤핍한자의 걸음이리로다 7 의인의 길은 정직함이여 정직하신 주께서 의인의 첩경을 평탄케 하시도다 8 여호와여, 주의 심판하시는 길에서 우리가 주를 기다렸사오며 주의 이름 곧 주의 기념 이름을 우리 영혼이 사모하나이다 9 밤에 내 영혼이 주를 사모하였사온즉 내 중심이 주를 간절히 구하오리니 이는 주께서 땅에서 심판하시는 때에 세계의 거민이 의를 배움이니이다 10 악인은 은총을 입을지라도 의를 배우지 아니하며 정직한 땅에서 불의를 행하고 여호와의 위엄을 돌아보지 아니하는도다 11 여호와여, 주의 손이 높이 들릴지라도 그들이 보지 아니하나이다마는 백성을 위하시는 주의 열성을 보면 부끄러워할 것이라 불이 주의 대적을 사르리이다 12 여호와여, 주께서 우리를 위하여 평강을 베푸시오리니 주께서 우리 모든 일을 우리를 위하여 이루심이니이다 13 여호와 우리 하나님이시여 주 외에 다른 주들이 우리를 관할하였사오나 우리가 주만 의뢰하고 주의 이름을 부르리이다 14 그들은 죽었은즉 다시 살지 못하겠고 사망하였은즉 일어나지 못할 것이니 이는 주께서 벌하여 멸하사 그 모든 기억을 멸절하였음이니이다 15 여호와여, 주께서 이 나라를 더 크게 하셨고 이 나라를 더 크게 하셨나이다 스스로 영광을 얻으시고 이 땅의 모든 경계를 확장하셨나이다 16 여호와여, 백성이 환난 중에 주를 앙모하였사오며 주의 징벌이 그들에게 임할 때에 그들이 간절히 주께 기도하였나이다 17 여호와여, 잉태한 여인이 산기가 임박하여 구로하며 부르짖음 같이 우리가 주의 앞에 이러하니이다 18 우리가 잉태하고 고통하였을지라도 낳은 것은 바람 같아서 땅에 구원을 베풀지 못하였고 세계의 거민을 생산치 못하였나이다 19 주의 죽은 자들은 살아나고 우리의 시체들은 일어나리이다 티끌에 거하는 자들아 너희는 깨어 노래하라 주의 이슬은 빛난 이슬이니 땅이 죽은 자를 내어 놓으리로다 20 내 백성아 갈지어다 네 밀실에 들어가서 네 문을 닫고 분노가 지나기까지 잠간 숨을지어다 21 보라, 여호와께서 그 처소에서 나오사 땅의 거민의 죄악을 벌하실것이라 땅이 그 위에 잦았던 피를 드러내고 그 살해 당한 자를 다시는 가리우지 아니하리라

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