Isaiah 26:8-9

Yea, in the way of thy judgments— How excellently does this passage correspond to the preceding, according to the interpretation we have given! The holy confessors, persuaded of the equity and justice of the ways of God, here declare with what disposition of mind they receive the trial with which God thought proper in his wisdom to exercise them. The heavy afflictions under which they groaned were so far from extinguishing their hope and love, that on the contrary they greatly excited and promoted these laudable affections; for, bring thoroughly persuaded that the ways of God are right, and that God will not suffer those whom he loves to be tempted above what they are able to bear, by waiting for judgment from a God the just judge of the world, they testify that they have united themselves to him, by a studious exercise of their souls. See Psalms 16:7. 1 Peter 4:17. The change of person, in the 9th verse, is very common in our prophet.