Isaiah 26:20 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 26:20

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.

BSB

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ASV

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

KJV

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

AGAINST JOHN OF JERUSALEM 33 (420)

"The hairs of your head are numbered." If the hairs, I suppose the teeth would be more easily numbered. But there is no object in numbering them if they are some day to perish. "The hour will come in which all who are in the tombs shall hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come forth." … Then shall be fulfilled what God says by the prophet, "Go, my people, into your closets for a little while, until my anger pass." The closets signify the graves, out of which is brought forth which had been laid therein.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

We must be faith find a way into these chambers, and there hide ourselves; that is, with a holy security and serenity of mind, we must put ourselves under the divine protection. Come, as Noah into the ark, for he shut the doors about him. When dangers are threatening it is good to retire, and lie hid, as Elijah did by the brook Cherith.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Comes my people, enter thou into thy chambers - An exhortation to patience and resignation under oppression, with a confident expectation of deliverance by the power of God manifestly to be exerted in the destruction of the oppressor. It seems to be an allusion to the command of Moses to the Israelites, when the destroying angel was to go through the land of Egypt, “not to go out at the door of their houses until the morning;” Exo 12:22. And before the passage of the Red Sea: “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of Jehovah.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֵ֤ךְ	lekh	come	H1980 →
עַמִּי֙	'a.Mi	O people my	H5971 →
בֹּ֣א	bo'	go	H935 →
בַחֲדָרֶ֔יךָ	va.cha.da.Rei.kha	in rooms your	H2315 →
וּֽסְגֹ֥ר	u.se.Gor	and shut	H5462 →
דְּלָתְךָ֖	de.la.tei.kha	door your	H1817 →
בַּעֲדֶ֑ךָ	ba.'a.De.kha	behind you	H1157 →
חֲבִ֥י	cha.Vi	hide	H2247 →
כִמְעַט־	khim.'at-	like a little of	H4592 →
רֶ֖גַע	Re.ga'	a moment	H7281 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
יַעֲבָר	ya.'a.Vor	it has passed by	H5674 →
זָֽעַם׃	Za.'am	indignation	H2195 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 30:5
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
leads to
- Isaiah 54:7–8
  “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
- 2 Corinthians 4:17
  For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
- Psalms 126:5–6
  Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
- Matthew 5:4
  Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- John 16:20–22
  Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
Through
Matthew 6:6
But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
leads to
- 2 Kings 4:33
  So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.
- Matthew 14:23
  After He had sent them away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. When evening came, He was there alone,
- Isaiah 65:24
  Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Isaiah