Isaiah 26:9 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 26:9

My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book 23, Section 39 (604)

For "night" is this present life, and as long as we are in it, we are covered with a mist of uncertain imaginations as far as the sight of inward objects is concerned. For the prophet was sensible that he was held by a certain mist in his sight of the Lord, when he says, "My soul longed for you in the night." As if he were to say, I long to behold you in the obscurity of this present life, but I am still surrounded by the mist of infirmity.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Early - Betimes in the morning. For - And good reason it is that we should thus desire and seek thee in the way of thy judgments, because this is the very design of thy judgments, that men should thereby be awakened to learn and return to their duty; and this is a common effect, that those who have been careless in prosperity, are made wiser and better by afflictions.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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 in captivity in Babylon; and says that it was the object of their unremitted anxiety to please God, and to do his will. For when thy judgments are in the earth - This is given as a reason for what had just been said, that in their calamity they had sought God without ceasing.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
נַפְשִׁ֤י	naf.Shi	self my	H5315 →
אִוִּיתִ֙יךָ֙	'i.vi.Ti.kha	I have desired you	H183 →
בַּלַּ֔יְלָה	ba.Lay.lah	in the night	H3915 →
אַף־	'af-	also	H637 →
רוּחִ֥י	ru.Chi	spirit my	H7307 →
בְקִרְבִּ֖י	ve.kir.Bi	in inner being my	H7130 →
אֲשַֽׁחֲרֶ֑ךָּ	'a.sha.cha.Re.ka	I will seek you	H7836 →
כִּ֞י	ki	for	H3588 →
כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר	ka.'a.Sher	<just> when	H834 →
מִשְׁפָּטֶ֙יךָ֙	mish.pa.Tei.kha	judgments your	H4941 →
לָאָ֔רֶץ	la.'A.retz	[are] to the earth	H776 →
צֶ֥דֶק	Tze.dek	righteousness	H6664 →
לָמְד֖וּ	la.me.Du	they learn	H3925 →
יֹשְׁבֵ֥י	yo.she.Vei	[the] inhabitants of	H3427 →
תֵבֵֽל׃	te.Vel	[the] world	H8398 →

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
Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
leads to
- Luke 12:31
  But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added unto you.
- Matthew 5:6
  Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
- John 6:27
  Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of…
- Psalms 34:9–10
  Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
- Psalms 84:11–12
  For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
Through
Psalms 63:1
O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
leads to
- Psalms 143:6
  I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
- Psalms 84:2
  My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Psalms 42:1–2
  As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah