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Isaiah 26:1

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 48-49, 733

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, pp. 17-18

    1/1/1995, p. 11

    1/15/1988, pp. 15-16

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 276

  • Publications Index

    it-2 48-49, 733; w01 3/1 17-18; ip-1 276; w95 1/1 11; w88 1/15 15-16


    w43 293; w40 8

Isaiah 26:2

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 48-49

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, pp. 17-18

    1/1/1995, pp. 10-16

    1/15/1988, pp. 15-16

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 276

  • Publications Index

    it-2 48-49; w01 3/1 17-18; ip-1 276; w95 1/1 10-11, 16; w88 1/15 15-16


    w79 5/15 7; w52 603; w43 294; w40 8

Isaiah 26:3

Footnotes

  • *

    26:3 Lit. a character that rests (on something for support)

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, p. 18

    1/15/1988, pp. 15-16

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 276-277

  • Publications Index

    w01 3/1 18; ip-1 276-277; w88 1/15 15-16


    g62 2/22 7; w52 603; w43 295; w40 8

Isaiah 26:4

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, p. 18

    1/15/1988, pp. 15-20

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 276-277

  • Publications Index

    w01 3/1 18; ip-1 276-277; w88 1/15 15-20


    w58 381; w51 185; w49 13; w43 296; w40 8

Isaiah 26:5

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, pp. 18-19

    1/15/1988, pp. 15-16

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 277-279

  • Publications Index

    w01 3/1 18-19; ip-1 277, 279; w88 1/15 15-16


    w52 602; w43 297

Isaiah 26:6

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, pp. 18-19

    1/15/1988, pp. 15-16

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 277-279

  • Publications Index

    w01 3/1 18-19; ip-1 277, 279; w88 1/15 15-16


    w52 602; w43 297; w36 196

Isaiah 26:7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, p. 19

  • Publications Index

    w01 3/1 19


    lp 159-161; w43 297

Isaiah 26:8

Footnotes

  • *

    26:8 Codd.* On the course of your justice too, Jehovah, we

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, p. 19

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 279

  • Publications Index

    w01 3/1 19; ip-1 279


    w43 297

Isaiah 26:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Worship God, pp. 97-98

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, p. 19

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 279

    Live Forever, pp. 177-178

  • Publications Index

    wt 97-98; w01 3/1 19; ip-1 279; pe 177-178


    g73 4/22 20; w65 178; im 372; w63 135; bf 646; g63 5/22 27; w51 421; el 300; w48 268; w43 297

Isaiah 26:10

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, p. 19

    1/15/1988, p. 16

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 279

    Live Forever, p. 178

  • Publications Index

    w01 3/1 19; ip-1 279; pe 178; w88 1/15 16


    w74 294; ka 137-138; g73 4/8 19; w43 298; w39 378

Isaiah 26:11

Footnotes

  • *

    26:11 Codd. jealousy shall take an unenlightened people

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 280

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 280


    w43 298; w39 378

Isaiah 26:12

Footnotes

  • *

    26:12 Lit. will judge (var. install) peace for us

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 280

    The Watchtower,

    1/15/1988, pp. 16-17

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 280; w88 1/15 16-17


    w43 298; fd 23

Isaiah 26:13

Footnotes

  • *

    26:13 (last part) Unc.

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 280-281

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 280-281


    ad 35; w43 298; fd 23

Isaiah 26:14

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, p. 20

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 281

  • Publications Index

    w01 3/1 20; ip-1 281


    g64 11/8 6; w43 298; fd 23; w39 378

Isaiah 26:15

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, p. 20

    1/1/1995, pp. 11-16

    1/15/1988, pp. 16-17

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 281

  • Publications Index

    w01 3/1 20; ip-1 281; w95 1/1 11, 16; w88 1/15 16-17


    w83 1/1 15; w43 299

Isaiah 26:16

Footnotes

  • *

    26:16 Var. was the constraint of a spell laid on us

Isaiah 26:17

Footnotes

  • *

    26:17 Var. omits taken with pangs

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, p. 20

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 281-282

  • Publications Index

    w01 3/1 20; ip-1 281-282

Isaiah 26:18

Footnotes

  • *

    26:18 (last half) Unc.

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 675

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, p. 20

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 281-282

  • Publications Index

    it-2 675; w01 3/1 20; ip-1 281-282


    w83 7/1 19; ad 1334

Isaiah 26:19

Footnotes

  • *

    26:19 (is healing) Var. is dew of lights or is dew of vegetables

  • *

    26:19 (last part) Unc.

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Awake!,

    4/22/2004, p. 12

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2001, p. 20

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 281-282

  • Publications Index

    g04 4/22 12; w01 3/1 20; ip-1 282


    w83 7/1 19-20; w79 6/15 18; g78 3/8 3-4; g66 10/22 28; w65 178; w47 90

Isaiah 26:20

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    1/2016, p. 9

    The Watchtower,

    11/15/2014, pp. 26-27

    5/15/2009, p. 8

    3/1/2001, pp. 20-21

    8/15/1998, p. 19

    1/15/1988, p. 17

    God’s Kingdom Rules!, p. 230

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 282-283

  • Publications Index

    w16.01 9; w14 11/15 26-27; kr 230; w09 5/15 8; w01 3/1 20-21; ip-1 282-283; w98 8/15 19; w88 1/15 17


    w83 7/1 20; g83 12/22 10-11; w79 5/15 13; w60 563; w42 189; g40 6/26 17; w31 53; v-1 44

Isaiah 26:21

Footnotes

  • *

    26:21 Lit. all its bloods

  • *

    26:21 Lit. its killed

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 282-283

    The Watchtower,

    1/15/1988, pp. 18-19

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 282-283; w88 1/15 18-19


    w83 7/1 20; w73 300, 308; w71 511-512; w63 133; w60 563; sr55 239; w54 543; w42 189; w30 335

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The Bible in Living English
Isaiah 26:1-21

Isaiah

26 On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

A strong city is ours;

he will set salvation

for walls and rampart.

2 Open gates

for an honest, loyal

nation to enter.

3* An anchored character

you will keep safe, safe,

because it trusts in you.

4 Trust ever in Jehovah,

because in Jehovah, Jehovah,

is a Rock eternal.

5 For he has sent down

dwellers aloft,

a towering city;

He brings it low,

low to the ground,

lays it in the clay.

6 Feet shall tread on it,

ill-used men’s feet,

poor men’s soles.

7 Level ground is a path for the honest; you steer the honest man’s run. 8* Give a course to your justice too, Jehovah; we have hoped for you, at your name and at the thought of you, with heart’s desire. 9 Heartily I have desired you in the night, yes, with my inmost spirit I quest after you; for when earth has your judgments the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. 10 Be grace showed to a wicked man, he has not learned righteousness; in a country of fair play he will play foul, and he shall not see Jehovah’s pride.

11* Jehovah, your hand has gone high—they do not see; let them see and be ashamed; let an unenlightened people’s jealousy run into a trap, yes, let your foes’ fire consume them. 12* Jehovah, you will do justice so as to give us peace; for so did you achieve all our history for us. 13* Jehovah our God, masters other than you have had us; you alone we mention, your name. 14 Dead men do not come to life; shades do not stand up; so you have taken them in hand and rooted them out and destroyed all memory of them. 15 You have added to the nation, Jehovah, added to the nation, shown yourself glorious; you have driven far off all the ends of the earth.

16* Jehovah, in distress we resorted to you; your discipline was a hard pressure on us. 17* Like a pregnant woman approaching childbirth, taken with pangs and crying out at her pains, such have we been under your hand, Jehovah: 18* we have been pregnant, we have been taken with pangs, have, as it were, given birth to air; salvations of the earth we have not been achieving, and inhabitants of the world have not been dropping.

19** Your dead men shall rise, and those who dwell in the clay shall wake and carol; for your dew is healing to them, and you will bestow the land of shades.

20 Come, my people, go into your chambers and shut yourself in; hide for the least moment, till unfriendliness passes by; 21** for here is Jehovah coming out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their guilt, and the earth shall lay bare all the blood in it and no longer cover the killed.

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