Isaiah 26:18
Read Isaiah 26:18 Using Other Translations
What does Isaiah 26:18 mean?
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.
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.
