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title: "Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "William Pringle"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 56 of 62
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/56/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. William Pringle, Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2, section 56. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/56/"
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# Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2

*John Calvin, tr. William Pringle*

Calvin on the prophet Isaiah, volume 2 of 4.

## 56. Chapter 26

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[¶0] 1 In that day shall a song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a city of strength; He hath made salvation to be walls and a rampart.

[¶1] 2 Open ye the gates, And the righteous nation shall enter, Which keepeth the truth.

[¶2] 3 The thought is fixed; Thou wilt keep peace, peace; For they have trusted in thee.

[¶3] 4 Hope ye in Jehovah for ever; For in Jah Jehovah is the strength of ages.

[¶4] 5 For he will bow down the inhabitants of loftiness; He will lay low the elevated city; He will lay it low to the ground; He will bring it to the dust.

[¶5] 6 The foot shall tread it down; The feet of the poor, The steps of the needy.

[¶6] 7 Straightnesses are the path of the righteous man; The straight way of the righteous man thou wilt weigh.

[¶7] 8 Even in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, We have waited for thee; To thy name, And to the remembrance of thee, Is the desire of the soul.

[¶8] 9 My soul hath desired thee in the night; Yea, with my spirit within me I will seek thee in the morning; For so soon as thy judgments shall be in the earth, The inhabitants of the earth shall learn righteousness.

[¶9] 10 The wicked man will obtain favour, And will not learn righteousness; In the land of upright actions he will deal unjustly, And will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.

[¶10] 11 Jehovah, though thy hand is lifted up, They will not see; They shall see, and be ashamed, Through their envy of the people; Yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

[¶11] 12 O Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; For thou also hast wrought all our works for us.

[¶12] 13 O Jehovah our God, Lords besides thee have had dominion over us; By thee only will we call thy name to remembrance.

[¶13] 14 The dead shall not live; The slain shall not rise again; Therefore thou hast visited and driven them away, And hast destroyed all remembrance of them.

[¶14] 15 Thou hast added to the nation, O Jehovah! Thou hast added to the nation; Thou art glorified; Thou hast enlarged all the boundaries of the earth.

[¶15] 16 O Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; They poured out a prayer, when thy chastening was upon them.

[¶16] 17 As a woman with child, who draweth near to her delivery, Is in pain, and crieth out in her pains; So have we been before thy face, O Jehovah.

[¶17] 18 We have been in labour, We have had pain, As if we had brought forth wind; Salvation hath not been wrought for the earth, And the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

[¶18] 19 Thy dead men shall live; My dead body, they shall arise; Awake and sing, ye inhabitants of the dust; For thy dew is the dew of herbs; And the earth shall cast out the dead.

[¶19] 20 Come, O my people; Enter thou into thy chambers; Shut the door behind thee; Hide thyself a little for a moment, Till the indignation pass over.

[¶20] 21 For, behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place, To visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him; And the earth shall disclose her blood, And shall no longer cover her slain.