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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 26:9

With my soul have I desired thee in the night... — Soul and spirit are joined together to express the fulness of personality. The “night” is the time of sorrow and expectation, in which the saints of God shall “watch for the morning” of the great day of judgment and deliverance. They welcomed the judgments” as the discipline, by which those who had failed to learn before would at last, it might be, learn and acknowledge the righteousness of God.

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See also Isaiah 26:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 26:9. _HAVE I DESIRED THEE_] _Forty-one_ MSS. of Dr. _Kennicott's_ and many of _De Rossi's_, (nine ancient,) and _five_ editions read אויתיך _ivvithicha_. It is proper to note this; becau...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WITH MY SOUL ... IN THE NIGHT - By desiring God in the night, and by seeking him early, is meant that the desire to seek him was unremitted and constant. The prophet speaks of the pious Jews who were...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 26 JUDAH'S GLORY SONG 1. _Praise for Jehovah's faithfulness and mercies (Isaiah 26:1)_ 2. _The experiences of waiting during the night (Isaiah 26:7)_ 3. The assurance of peace and deliverance...

  • 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. J...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9. EARLY. with the dawn. WHEN, &C. Hence the multitudes which come out of the great tribulation in Revelation 7:14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The first half of the verse completes the thought of Isaiah 26:8; the second is linked to Isaiah 26:10. The speaker is the individualised community. _will I seek thee early_ Rather, I SEEK THEE EARNE...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. JUSTICE'S OBJECTIVE TEXT: Isaiah 26:7-15 7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just. 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we wa...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    NIGHT] the season of meditation (Psalms 4:4)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 26 A SONG TO PRAISE GOD V1 At that time all the people in Judah will sing this song:...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    In the night, it is quiet. There is nothing to interrupt my inner thoughts about God....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נַפְשִׁ֤י אִוִּיתִ֨יךָ֙ בַּ † לַּ֔יְלָה אַף ־רוּחִ֥י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXIX GOD'S POOR DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 26:1; Isaiah 27:1 WE have seen that no more than the faintest gleam of historical reflection brightens the obscurity of chapter 24, and th...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - w...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PEACE THROUGH STEADFAST TRUST Isaiah 26:1-10 No doubt when Babylon fell before Cyrus the Jewish remnant under Ezra and Nehemiah sang this triumphal ode, which contrasts the respective lots of Babylon...

  • 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, a...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn (h) righteousnes...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Night of distress._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is a sweet view of a gracious soul in particular, and of the Church, in general, in the silent, humble, waitings on the Lord, as well in providence as grace. I hope the Reader is brought acquaint...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._My soul hath desired thee. _This is a stronger expression of the former statement; for, having previously spoken in the person of believers, he had said that the desire of their soul was towards Go...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 25 AND 26. Chapter s 25 and 26 take the form of a song, in which the effect of God's intervention is celebrated. Let us observe its principal subjects. God is...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WITH MY SOUL HAVE I DESIRED THEE IN THE NIGHT,.... Either literally, when others were asleep: or figuratively, in the captivity; which, as Jarchi says, was like unto the night; or in the time of Jewis...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord_ That is, as some understand it, of thine _ordinances_ and _commandments_, in which we carefully and conscientiously walk; or, in the way of thy _chastisement...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    With my soul have I desired Thee in the night, in the time of affliction, which deprived him of rest; YEA, WITH MY SPIRIT WITHIN ME WILL I SEEK THEE EARLY, confident that the morning would bring a hap...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CHURCH'S SONG OF PRAISE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-11 The way of the just is evenness, a steady course of obedience and holy conversation. And it is their happiness that God makes their way plain and easy. It is our duty, and will be our comfort, t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WITH MY SOUL; sincerely and most affectionately, as PSALMS 63:1, and elsewhere. HAVE I: the prophet speaks this in the name of all God's people, by comparing this with the foregoing verse. In the nigh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 26:9 soul H5315 desired H183 (H8765) night H3915 spirit H7307 within H7130 early H7836 (H8762) judgments...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND JUDGMENTS ON THE UNRIGHTEOUS (ISAIAH 26:7). Isaiah 26:7 ‘The way of the righteous is uprightness (altogether right), You (singular) who are upright weigh up the path of...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE LOFTY CITY AND THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS (ISAIAH 26:5). Those in the lofty city have no time for righteousness. Even if shown favour or set in a land of uprightness they will...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS (ISAIAH 26:5) The ways of the righteous and of the unrighteous are now compared, and their destinies contrasted. For the unrighteous the grave with its shadowy half-...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 26:9 I. The Bible is pervaded by the teaching of events. Isaiah is the inspired writer who lays most stress on this teaching. He is full of a great fall which is to come some day to all human p...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 26:1. _In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah;_ God would have his people to be a singing people. They often sigh; they should oftener sing. God makes their songs, and appoin...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 26:1. _In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks._ God is the great source of song; he «giveth songs in...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Worship and testimony of restored and converted Israel in the Kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God's people Israel, banished and driven out by the iniquity of the former times wil...

  • 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 are...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _With my soul have I desired Thee in the night_ THE RELIGIOUS CRAVING AND SEEKING OF THE SOUL AT NIGHT There is no work so momentous, me influential, as the work of the soul in the sleepless hours o...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _In that day shall this song be sung_ PERIODS OF RESTORATION If it be demanded, what period of time is this which the prophet speaks of? we must answer, that it is the time when the people, who for...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 26:8 YOU... YOU... YOU. God himself is the one his people wholeheartedly desire. THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD. Desire for God inspires a longing that all would recognize him....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE USE AND ABUSE OF THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD Isaiah 26:9. _For when Thy judgments, &c._ I. _The judgments of God are frequently in the earth_—such as earthquakes, hurricanes, pestilence, commercial disa...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    TRUST AMID TRIALS Isaiah 26:8. _Yea, in the way of Thy judgments … will I seek Thee early_. In this verse the prophet expresses the confiding trust of God’s people amid times of judgment. It is as th...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn to Isaiah chapter 26 as we begin our study this evening. Now Isaiah 26:1-21 goes right along with Isaiah 25:1-12 because it declares, In that day (Isaiah 26:1) In what day? In the day...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hosea 5:15; Isaiah 27:9; Luke 6:12; Mark 1:35; Matthew 6:33;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In the night — When others are sleeping, my thoughts and desires are working towards God. Early — Betimes in the morning. For — And good reason it is that we should thus desire and seek thee in the wa...

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