Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Verse Takeaways
1
Human Efforts Fall Short
Commentators unanimously explain that the image of a painful pregnancy resulting only in "wind" illustrates a profound truth: human efforts, no matter how sincere or agonizing, are incapable of bringing about true deliverance. The verse is a stark confession of helplessness, showing that Israel's own struggles against their enemies were ultimately futile.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Isaiah
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
Commentaries
7
Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 26:18
18th Century
Theologian
We have been ... - This refers to sorrows and calamities they had experienced previously, when they had made great efforts for deli…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 26:18
19th Century
Bishop
We have as it were brought forth wind. — Left to themselves, the longing expectations of Israel had been frustrated. It was, so to…
Charles Spurgeon
On Isaiah 26:17–18
19th Century
Preacher
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pain; so have we been in thy sight O …
Go Ad-Free
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
John Calvin
On Isaiah 26:18
16th Century
Theologian
We have as it were brought forth wind. The second thing to be remarked is that he goes beyond the limit of the metaphor. When there is no …
John Gill
On Isaiah 26:18
17th Century
Pastor
We have been with child Like women with child; we have been full of hopes and expectations of great things, of deliveranc…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 26:12–19
17th Century
Minister
Every creature, every business, anything in any way serviceable to our comfort, God makes it so; He makes that work for us which seemed to work aga…