Isaiah 26:20

Go, my people, enter into your rooms and shut your doors behind you; 1 hide for a little while, until the indignation has passed by. 1

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In The King James Version

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

In Context

19Your dead will live; their dead bodies will arise. Awake and sing for joy, you who live in the dust; 1 for your dew is the dew of light, and the earth will bring forth its dead. 1

21For, look, Yahweh is about to come out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; 1 the earth will uncover her bloodshed, and will no longer conceal her slain.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:1Yahweh said to Noah, “Come, you and all your household, into the ark, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

Exodus 12:22Then take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that will be in a basin. Apply the blood in the basin to the top of the doorframe and the two doorposts. None of you is to go out of the door of his house until the morning.

Psalms 27:5For in the day of trouble he will hide me in his shelter; 1 in the cover of his tent he will conceal me. 1 He will lift me high on a rock! 1

Psalms 31:20In the shelter of your presence, you hide them from the plots of men. 1 You hide them in a shelter from the violence of tongues. 1

Psalms 57:1Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, 1 for I take refuge in you until these troubles are over. 1 I stay under your wings for protection until this destruction is over. 1

Psalms 91:1He who lives in the shelter of the Most High 1 will stay in the shadow of the Almighty. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 26:13-20

Goodness of God to Israel; Israel Corrected for Sin; Prospects of the Church. ( b. c. 718.) 12 Lord , thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. 13 O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord , thou hast… Read the whole commentary →

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