Isaiah 26:1
In that day this song is sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city, || He makes salvation [for] walls and bulwark.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Open the gates, || That a righteous nation may enter, || Preserving steadfastness.
Cross References
Exodus 15:2My strength and song is YAH, || And He is become my salvation: This [is] my God, and I glorify Him; God of my father, and I exalt Him.
Judges 5:1And Deborah sings—also Barak son of Abinoam—on that day, saying,
Ezra 3:11And they respond in praising and in giving thanks to YHWH, “For [He is] good, for His kindness [is] for all time over Israel!” And all the people have shouted [with] a great shout in giving praise to YHWH, because the house of YHWH has been founded.
Psalms 48:4For behold, the kings met, they passed by together,
Psalms 137:3For there our captors asked us the words of a song, || And our spoilers—joy: “Sing to us of a song of Zion.”
Isaiah 2:20In that day man casts his idols of silver, || And his idols of gold, || That they have made for him to worship, || To moles, and to 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 →