Isaiah 26:17-18
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Other commentaries on this verse
- John Gill - Exposition - Isaiah 26
- John Gill - Exposition - Isaiah 26:17
- John Gill - Exposition - Isaiah 26:18
- Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Isaiah 26
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Isaiah 26:17-18
Isaiah 26:17-18. 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 LORD. We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Ah, no! all the agonies of a mind, all the troubles of a soul, cannot save it. This is the work of grace; this is the gift of God. What a mercy it is that such a cheering promise as this next verse contains comes in just here