Isaiah 26:14

12 Lord, You will establish peace for us,
For You have also done all our works¹ in us.

13 O Lord our God, ^amasters besides You
Have had dominion over us;
But by You only we make mention of Your name.

14 They are dead, they will not live;
They are deceased, they will not rise.
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
And made all their memory to ^aperish.

15 You have increased the nation, O Lord,
You have ^aincreased the nation;
You are glorified;
You have expanded all the¹ borders of the land.

16 Lord, ^ain trouble they have visited You,
They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

17 As ^aa woman with child
Is in pain and cries out in her¹ pangs,
When she draws near the time of her delivery,
So have we been in Your sight, O Lord.

18 We have been with child, we have been in pain;
We have, as it were,¹ brought forth wind;
We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,
Nor have ^athe inhabitants of the world fallen.

19 ^aYour dead shall live;
Together with¹ my dead body they shall arise.
^bAwake and sing, you who dwell in dust;
For your dew is like the dew of herbs,
And the earth shall cast out the dead.

Take Refuge from the Coming Judgment

20 Come, my people, ^aenter your chambers,
And shut your doors behind you;
Hide yourself, as it were, ^bfor a little moment,
Until the indignation is past.

21 For behold, the Lord ^acomes out of His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
The earth will also disclose her¹ blood,
And will no more cover her slain.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Isaiah 26:14

They are dead - That is, the kings and tyrants to whom reference is made in Isaiah 26:13. The principal enemies of the Jews, who had oppressed them, were slain when Babylon was taken by Cyrus (see the notes at Isa. 13; 14)

They shall not live - They shall not again live, and be permitted to harass and enslave us.

They are deceased - Hebrew, r^e pâ'iym - a name given to the shades or manes of the dead, from an idea that they were weak and powerless (see the notes at Isaiah 14:9-10; compare Psalms 88:11; Proverbs 2:18; Proverbs 9:18; Proverbs 21:16). The sense here is, that they had died and gone to the land of shades, and were now unable anymore to reach or injure the people of God.

Therefore - Or rather, "for" ; the word lākên being used evidently in the sense of because that, as in Genesis 38:26; Numbers 11:31; Numbers 14:13; Psalms 42:7; Psalms 45:3. The declaration that follows is given as the reason why they were dead, and incapable of again injuring or annoying them.

Hast thou visited ... - (see the note at Isaiah 24:22) The word ' visit' here is used in the sense of to punish.

And made all their memory to perish - Hast blotted out their name; hast caused their celebrity to cease.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 26:14:**

Isaiah 10:3
Isaiah 14:9
Isaiah 24:22
Isaiah 26:19

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