Isaiah 26:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.d ”

• Isaiah 26:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thou wilt ordain peace - The word ‘peace’ here seems to stand opposed to the evils of various kinds which they had experienced in the captivity at Babylon; and to refer net only to peace, but als...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Memories and Anticipations. The poem, which is a very elaborate composition, seems to have been written in confident expectation of deliverance, though the actual situation is still one of distress...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  ordain . arrange. in us . for us. Compare Philippians 1:2 ; Philippians 1:13 . App-4. lords . owners. Referring to the Canaanite oppressors of Israel and their false gods. had dominion . dom...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. O Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us. This statement tends to the consolation of the godly, as if he had said, “We shall see what will be the end of the wicked; for thou wilt prevent...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. Peace for us - "peace:" God's favour; including all blessings, temporal and spiritual, opposed to their pr...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Salvation, etc.] the assurance of divine protection takes the place of material bulwarks.

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thou also hast wrought all our work in us... — Better, for us. The “work” is the great work of salvation and deliverance.

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXIX GOD'S POOR DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 25:1-12 ; Isaiah 26:1-21 ; Isaiah 27:1-13 WE have seen that no more than the faintest gleam of historical reflection brightens the obscurity of...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Chastened by Suffering Isaiah 26:11-21 When God ordains our peace, a world in arms cannot disturb us. Our peace results from the conviction that God is going before us and preparing our works....

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• Isaiah 26:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Naturally following this prophecy of praise for the activity of Jehovah is the great song which will be sung in the day of Jehovah's ultimate victory. It is praise for the establishment of the city,...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  How strikingly is the conduct of wicked and unregenerate men here marked! If the Lord's hand be lifted up in judgments; though they see the judgments; yet as the Lord's judgments they see them not. A...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us ,.... Dispose, order, give it to us, outward and inward, spiritual and eternal: chiefly respect is had to that peace and prosperity the church will have in the la...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. Ver. 12. Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us. ] Or, Lord, dispose peace for us. For thou also hast wrought a...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us That is, for thy true and genuine church and people. Though thou hast afflicted us, ( Isaiah 26:8 .) yet the time will come when we shall be in a very different,...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Goodness of God to Israel; Israel Corrected for Sin; Prospects of the Church. B. C.  718.      ...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thou wilt ordain peace for us; as thou wilt destroy thine and our enemies, so thou wilt bless us thy people with peace and prosperity. All our works; either, 1. All the good works done by us, w...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Righteous and the Unrighteous ( Isaiah 26:5-21 ) The ways of the righteous and of the unrighteous are now compared, and their destinies contrasted. For the unrighteous the grave with its shado...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  NATIONAL PEACE THE GIFT OF GOD ( A Thanksgiving Sermon .) Isaiah 26:12 . Lord, Thou wilt ordain peace for us: for Thou hast wrought all our work in us . The joyfulness of the occasion. Peace a gr...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Isaiah 26:1 . In that day Or, rather, as we may read it now, «In this day» Isaiah 26:1-3 . Shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 26:1 . When Sennacherib's army was slain, the Hebrews could sing, We have a strong city; yea, a city stronger than Jerusalem. God is our refuge, a very present help in time of trouble. We a...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Lord, Thou wilt ordain peace for us God ordaining peace The expression seems to allude to the action of a commander-in-chief in the army, who marshals his soldiers according to the plan he had...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 26:1-23 A SONG OF THE REDEEMED IN MOUNT ZION . The prophet, having (in Isaiah 25:1-23 .) poured forth his own thankfulness to God for the promise of the Chur...

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• Isaiah 26:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Concluding Scenes from the World's History

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 30:6 ; Ephesians 2:10 ; Ezekiel 20:14 ; Ezekiel 20:22 ; Ezekiel 20:9 ; Ezekiel 36:25 ; Hebrews 13:20 ; Isaiah 57:10 ; Jeremiah 33:6 ; John 14:27 ; Psalms 29:11 ; Psalms 57:2

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• Isaiah 26:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Our works — All the good works done by us, are the effects of thy grace.

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