Isaías 26:18

18 Concebimos, nos retorcimos,pero dimos a luz tan solo viento.No trajimos salvación a la tierra,ni nacieron los habitantes del mundo.

Isaías 26:18 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child
Like women with child; we have been full of hopes and expectations of great things, of deliverance from our enemies, and of the kingdom of Christ being at hand: we have been in pain;
in great distress and anxiety, and in fervent and frequent prayer, travailing in birth, which we looked upon as forerunners of a happy issue of things: we have as it were brought forth wind;
all our hopes have proved abortive, and we have been disappointed in our expectations: we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth:
or, "salvations" have "not been wrought in the earth" ^F6; this explains what is meant by bringing forth wind; salvation and deliverance out of the hand of the enemy not being wrought, as was expected: neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen;
worldly men, the great men, the kings of the earth; particularly such as commit fornication with the whore of Rome, Popish persecuting princes; these as yet are not fallen, though they shall in the battle of Armageddon.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (Ura hven lb twewvy) "res salutum non est facta", Vatablus; "salates non fit terra", Montanus; "salutes non factae sunt terrae", Tigurine version; "non sunt factae in terra", Pagninus.

Isaías 26:18 In-Context

16 SEÑOR, en la angustia te buscaron;apenas si lograban susurrar una oracióncuando tú ya los corregías.

17 SEÑOR, nosotros estuvimos ante ticomo cuando una mujer embarazadase retuerce y grita de doloral momento de dar a luz.

18 Concebimos, nos retorcimos,pero dimos a luz tan solo viento.No trajimos salvación a la tierra,ni nacieron los habitantes del mundo.

19 Pero tus muertos vivirán,sus cadáveres volverán a la vida.¡Despierten y griten de alegría,moradores del polvo!Porque tu rocío es como el rocío de la mañana,y la tierra devolverá sus muertos.

20 ¡Anda, pueblo mío, entra en tus habitacionesy cierra tus puertas tras de ti;escóndete por un momento,hasta que pase la ira!