Isaiah 26:15
in Isaiah 26You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.
KJV
Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
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This verse in Isaiah 26
Commentary
8 notes on this verse(Verse 15.) You have shown mercy to the nations, Lord, you have shown mercy to the nations. Have you been glorified? You have extended all the ends of the earth. LXX: Add evils to them, Lord, add evils to the glorious ones of the earth: you have made all the ends of the earth far away.
This site's exposition
You will establish peace for us
on Isaiah 26:12-15
Verse 12 credits the LORD with all the nation has done, "For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us". Verse 14 answers, "The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise", and the LORD has "wiped out all memory of them".
This site's exposition
You have enlarged the nation
The doubled cry echoes the promise of 9:3, and Barnes sees the nation enlarged by its children and by converts. Henry notes that the glory given to the LORD stands at the center. The borders of the land are His work.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
615. You have indulged. Here he urges God to the work of justice from experience; and first, from experience among the gentiles, second, among to the Jews: as a woman with child (Isa 26:17). Concerning the first, he does two things. First, he demonstrates from …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
But observe, Between the mention of the increasing of them and that of the removing of them it is said, Thou art glorified; for the judgments God inflicts upon his people for their sins are for his honour, as well as the mercies he bestows upon them in performance of his promise.
Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation,....
Note, God's nation is a growing nation, and it is the glory of God that it is so. The increase of the church, that holy nation, is therefore to be rejoiced in because it is the increase of those that make it their business to glorify God in this world.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Thou hast increased the nation - That is, the Jewish nation (see the note at Isa 9:3). The nation was not only enlarged by its regular increase of population, but many converts attended them on their return from Babylon, and probably many came in from surrounding nations on the rebuilding of their capital. Thou hadst removed it far ... - Or rather, thou hast extended far all the borders of the land.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
The dead shall not live May it be Your will that these wicked men shall not live in the World to Come, and that these slackers who slackened their hands from Your commandments shall not have restoration.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יָסַ֤פְתָּ | yasafta | you have added | H3254 → | 212 times |
| לַגּוֹי֙ | lagoy | to the nation | H1471 → | 561 times |
| יְהוָ֔ה | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| יָסַ֥פְתָּ | yasafta | you have added | H3254 → | 212 times |
| לַגּ֖וֹי | lagoy | to the nation | H1471 → | 561 times |
| נִכְבָּ֑דְתָּ | nikhbadeta | you have gained glory | H3513 → | 113 times |
| רִחַ֖קְתָּ | richakta | you have extended | H7368 → | 57 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| קַצְוֵי־ | katzvei- | [the] boundaries of | H7099 → | |
| אָֽרֶץ׃ | ʾaretz | [the] land | H776 → | 2504 times |
יָסַ֤פְתָּyou have added
yasaftaH3254 →212 times
לַגּוֹי֙to the nation
lagoyH1471 →561 times
יְהוָ֔הO Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
יָסַ֥פְתָּyou have added
yasaftaH3254 →212 times
לַגּ֖וֹיto the nation
lagoyH1471 →561 times
נִכְבָּ֑דְתָּyou have gained glory
nikhbadetaH3513 →113 times
רִחַ֖קְתָּyou have extended
richaktaH7368 →57 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
קַצְוֵי־[the] boundaries of
katzvei-H7099 →
אָֽרֶץ׃[the] land
ʾaretzH776 →2504 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 30:19Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
it leads to
- Isaiah 35:10
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 33:22
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister…
- Isaiah 60:22
The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.
- Isaiah 51:11
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
- Ezekiel 36:37
This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.
- Isaiah 35:10
Through
Deuteronomy 10:22Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
it leads to
- Genesis 15:5
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Genesis 46:27
And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.
- Genesis 15:5
Through
Ezekiel 5:12A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 5:2
When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword…
- Ezekiel 5:2
Where this verse is studied
About Isaiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Calvin, Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.