Isaiah 26:5
For He bowed down the dwellers on high, || A city set on high He makes low, || He makes it low to the earth, || He causes it to come to the dust,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Trust in YHWH forever, || For in YAH—YHWH [is] a rock of ages,
6A foot treads it down, || Feet of the poor—steps of the weak.
Cross References
Job 40:11Scatter abroad the wrath of your anger, || And see every proud one, and make him low.
Isaiah 13:11“And I have appointed evil on the world, || And on the wicked their iniquity, || And have caused the excellence of the proud to cease, || And I make the excellence of the terrible low.
Isaiah 24:10It was broken down—a city of emptiness, || Every house has been shut from [its] entrance.
Isaiah 25:12And the fortress of the high place of your walls || He has bowed down—He has made low, || He has caused [it] to come to the earth—to dust.
Isaiah 47:1“Come down, and sit on the dust, || O virgin daughter of Babylon, || Sit on the earth, there is no throne, || O daughter of the Chaldeans, || For they no longer cry to you, || O tender and delicate one.
Jeremiah 51:25“Behold, I [am] against you, O destroying mountain,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “That is destroying all the earth, || And I have stretched out My hand against you, || And I have rolled you from the rocks, || And given you for a burnt mountain.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 26:2-5
The Blessings of the Gospel. ( b. c. 718.) 1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. 4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: To the prophecies of gospel grace very fitly is a song annexed, in which we… Read the whole commentary →