Isaías 26:18

18 Concebimos, tuvimos dolores de parto, parimos como viento; salud ninguna hicimos en la tierra, ni cayeron los moradores 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 tribulación te buscaron, derramaron oración cuando los castigaste

17 Como la mujer encinta cuando se acerca el parto, gime, y da gritos con sus dolores, así hemos sido delante de ti, oh SEÑOR

18 Concebimos, tuvimos dolores de parto, parimos como viento; salud ninguna hicimos en la tierra, ni cayeron los moradores del mundo

19 Tus muertos vivirán, y junto con mi cuerpo resucitarán. ¡Despertad y cantad, moradores del polvo! Porque tu rocío, es cual cubierta de luz; y la tierra echará los muertos

20 Anda pues, pueblo mío, entra en tus aposentos, cierra tras ti tus puertas; escóndete un poquito, por un momento, entre tanto que pasa la ira