Isaiah 26:1
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.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2Open ye the gates, and the righteous nation which keepeth faithfulness shall enter in.
Cross References
Exodus 15:2My strength and song is Jah, and he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will glorify him; My father's God, and I will extol him.
Judges 5:1Then sang Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying,
Ezra 3:11And they sang alternately together in praising and giving thanks to Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout to the praise of Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.
Psalms 48:4For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together;
Psalms 137:3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail [required] mirth, [saying,] Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.
Isaiah 2:20In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made [each] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 26:1
This chapter is a song of holy joy and praise, in which the great things God had engaged, in the foregoing chapter, to do for his people against his enemies and their enemies are celebrated: it is prepared to be sung when that prophecy should be accomplished; for we must be forward to meet God with our thanksgivings when he is coming towards us with his mercies. Now the people of God are here taught, I. To triumph in the safety and holy security both of the church in general and of every particular member of it,… Read the whole commentary →