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Isaiah 26:3

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Peace;   Righteous;   Spirituality;   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Jehovah);   Thompson Chain Reference - Faith-Unbelief;   Peace;   Promises, Divine;   Rest-Unrest;   Trust in God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Backsliding;   Peace, Spiritual;   Trust;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Peace;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Trust in God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Arms;   Sandal;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ancient of Days;   Isaiah;   Mind;   Peace, Spiritual;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Care ;   Peace (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Peace;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Affliction;   Imagination;   Isaiah;   Peace;   Quotations, New Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Yeẓer Ha-Ra';  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 22;   Every Day Light - Devotion for May 3;   Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for January 23;   My Utmost for His Highest - Devotion for February 11;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You will keep the mind that is dependent on youin perfect peace,for it is trusting in you.
Hebrew Names Version
You will keep [him] in perfect shalom, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you.
King James Version
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
English Standard Version
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
New American Standard Bible
"The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You.
New Century Version
You, Lord , give true peace to those who depend on you, because they trust you.
Amplified Bible
"You will keep in perfect and constant peace the one whose mind is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You—in both inclination and character], Because he trusts and takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation].
World English Bible
You will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
By an assured purpose wilt thou preserue perfite peace, because they trusted in thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peaceBecause he trusts in You.
Berean Standard Bible
The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in You.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord gives perfect peace to those whose faith is firm.
Complete Jewish Bible
"A person whose desire rests on you you preserve in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
Darby Translation
Thou wilt keep in perfect peace the mind stayed [on thee], for he confideth in thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
God, you give true peace to people who depend on you, to those who trust in you.
George Lamsa Translation
Thou wilt keep us in perfect peace, for in thee we have trusted, O LORD, for ever and ever.
Good News Translation
You, Lord , give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm and put their trust in you.
Lexham English Bible
You will protect a firm inclination in peace, in peace because he trusts in you.
Literal Translation
You will keep in perfect peace the mind stayed on You , for he trusts in You.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And thou, which art the doer and hast the matter in honde: shalt prouyde for peace, eue the peace yt me hope for in the.
American Standard Version
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.
Bible in Basic English
The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The mind stayed on Thee Thou keepest in perfect peace; because it trusteth in Thee.
King James Version (1611)
Thou wilt keepe him in perfect peace, whose minde is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
By an assured purpose wylt thou preserue perfect peace, because they put their trust in thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
supporting truth, and keeping peace: for on thee, O Lord,
English Revised Version
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The elde errour is gon awei; thou schalt kepe pees, pees, for thou, Lord, we hopiden in thee.
Update Bible Version
You will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
New English Translation
You keep completely safe the people who maintain their faith, for they trust in you.
New King James Version
You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.
New Living Translation
You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
New Life Bible
You will keep the man in perfect peace whose mind is kept on You, because he trusts in You.
New Revised Standard
Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace— in peace because they trust in you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A purpose sustained, thou wilt guard, saying , Prosper! Prosper! Because in thee, hath he been led to trust.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.
Revised Standard Version
Thou dost keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee.
Young's Literal Translation
An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace -- peace! For in Thee it is confident.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You.

Contextual Overview

1 At that time, this song will be sung in the country of Judah: We have a strong city, Salvation City, built and fortified with salvation. Throw wide the gates so good and true people can enter. People with their minds set on you, you keep completely whole, Steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don't quit. Depend on God and keep at it because in the Lord God you have a sure thing. Those who lived high and mighty he knocked off their high horse. He used the city built on the hill as fill for the marshes. All the exploited and outcast peoples build their lives on the reclaimed land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wilt: Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 57:19-21, Psalms 85:7, Psalms 85:8, Micah 5:5, John 14:27, John 16:33, Romans 5:1, Ephesians 2:14-16, Philippians 4:7

in perfect peace: Heb. peace

peace: mind, or, thought, or imagination

stayed: Isaiah 31:1, Isaiah 48:2, Isaiah 50:1

because: 1 Chronicles 5:20, 2 Chronicles 13:18, 2 Chronicles 16:8, Psalms 9:10, Jeremiah 17:7, Jeremiah 17:8, Romans 4:18-21

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:3 - General Exodus 14:13 - Fear ye not Numbers 6:26 - give thee 2 Kings 6:33 - wait for the 2 Chronicles 14:11 - rest on thee 2 Chronicles 20:20 - Believe in the Lord Job 34:29 - When he giveth Psalms 2:12 - Blessed Psalms 3:5 - the Psalms 4:5 - put Psalms 11:1 - In the Psalms 16:1 - for Psalms 25:2 - O Psalms 37:11 - delight Psalms 59:9 - his strength Psalms 86:2 - trusteth Psalms 91:2 - in him Psalms 112:7 - heart Proverbs 1:33 - and shall Proverbs 3:5 - Trust Proverbs 3:17 - all Proverbs 16:20 - whoso Proverbs 28:1 - the righteous Song of Solomon 8:5 - leaning Isaiah 8:13 - Sanctify Isaiah 10:20 - but shall stay Isaiah 27:5 - let him Isaiah 30:15 - in returning Isaiah 32:17 - the work Isaiah 50:10 - let Isaiah 54:13 - great Isaiah 57:13 - but he Jeremiah 39:18 - because Daniel 3:17 - our God Daniel 3:28 - that trusted Daniel 6:23 - because Malachi 3:16 - that thought Matthew 1:20 - while Matthew 24:6 - see John 14:1 - ye Acts 12:6 - the same Colossians 3:15 - the peace 2 Thessalonians 2:2 - shaken

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
God appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children." Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.
Genesis 20:1
Abraham traveled from there south to the Negev and settled down between Kadesh and Shur. While he was camping in Gerar, Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She's my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her. But God came to Abimelech in a dream that night and told him, "You're as good as dead—that woman you took, she's a married woman." Now Abimelech had not yet slept with her, hadn't so much as touched her. He said, "Master, would you kill an innocent man? Didn't he tell me, ‘She's my sister'? And didn't she herself say, ‘He's my brother'? I had no idea I was doing anything wrong when I did this." God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know your intentions were pure, that's why I kept you from sinning against me; I was the one who kept you from going to bed with her. So now give the man's wife back to him. He's a prophet and will pray for you—pray for your life. If you don't give her back, know that it's certain death both for you and everyone in your family." Abimelech was up first thing in the morning. He called all his house servants together and told them the whole story. They were shocked. Then Abimelech called in Abraham and said, "What have you done to us? What have I ever done to you that you would bring on me and my kingdom this huge offense? What you've done to me ought never to have been done." Abimelech went on to Abraham, "Whatever were you thinking of when you did this thing?" Abraham said, "I just assumed that there was no fear of God in this place and that they'd kill me to get my wife. Besides, the truth is that she is my half sister; she's my father's daughter but not my mother's. When God sent me out as a wanderer from my father's home, I told her, ‘Do me a favor; wherever we go, tell people that I'm your brother.'" Then Abimelech gave Sarah back to Abraham, and along with her sent sheep and cattle and servants, both male and female. He said, "My land is open to you; live wherever you wish." And to Sarah he said, "I've given your brother a thousand pieces of silver—that clears you of even a shadow of suspicion before the eyes of the world. You're vindicated." Then Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his maidservants, and they started having babies again. For God had shut down every womb in Abimelech's household on account of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 26:1
There was a famine in the land, as bad as the famine during the time of Abraham. And Isaac went down to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
Genesis 26:2
God appeared to him and said, "Don't go down to Egypt; stay where I tell you. Stay here in this land and I'll be with you and bless you. I'm giving you and your children all these lands, fulfilling the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. I'll make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky and give them all these lands. All the nations of the Earth will get a blessing for themselves through your descendants. And why? Because Abraham obeyed my summons and kept my charge—my commands, my guidelines, my teachings."
Genesis 26:6
So Isaac stayed put in Gerar.
Genesis 26:12
Isaac planted crops in that land and took in a huge harvest. God blessed him. The man got richer and richer by the day until he was very wealthy. He accumulated flocks and herds and many, many servants, so much so that the Philistines began to envy him. They got back at him by throwing dirt and debris into all the wells that his father's servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham, clogging up all the wells.
Genesis 26:16
Finally, Abimelech told Isaac: "Leave. You've become far too big for us."
Genesis 39:2
As it turned out, God was with Joseph and things went very well with him. He ended up living in the home of his Egyptian master. His master recognized that God was with him, saw that God was working for good in everything he did. He became very fond of Joseph and made him his personal aide. He put him in charge of all his personal affairs, turning everything over to him. From that moment on, God blessed the home of the Egyptian—all because of Joseph. The blessing of God spread over everything he owned, at home and in the fields, and all Potiphar had to concern himself with was eating three meals a day. Joseph was a strikingly handsome man. As time went on, his master's wife became infatuated with Joseph and one day said, "Sleep with me." He wouldn't do it. He said to his master's wife, "Look, with me here, my master doesn't give a second thought to anything that goes on here—he's put me in charge of everything he owns. He treats me as an equal. The only thing he hasn't turned over to me is you. You're his wife, after all! How could I violate his trust and sin against God?" She pestered him day after day after day, but he stood his ground. He refused to go to bed with her. On one of these days he came to the house to do his work and none of the household servants happened to be there. She grabbed him by his cloak, saying, "Sleep with me!" He left his coat in her hand and ran out of the house. When she realized that he had left his coat in her hand and run outside, she called to her house servants: "Look—this Hebrew shows up and before you know it he's trying to seduce us. He tried to make love to me but I yelled as loud as I could. With all my yelling and screaming, he left his coat beside me here and ran outside." She kept his coat right there until his master came home. She told him the same story. She said, "The Hebrew slave, the one you brought to us, came after me and tried to use me for his plaything. When I yelled and screamed, he left his coat with me and ran outside." When his master heard his wife's story, telling him, "These are the things your slave did to me," he was furious. Joseph's master took him and threw him into the jail where the king's prisoners were locked up. But there in jail God was still with Joseph: He reached out in kindness to him; he put him on good terms with the head jailer. The head jailer put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners—he ended up managing the whole operation. The head jailer gave Joseph free rein, never even checked on him, because God was with him; whatever he did God made sure it worked out for the best.
Psalms 32:8
Let me give you some good advice; I'm looking you in the eye and giving it to you straight:
Psalms 39:12
"Ah, God , listen to my prayer, my cry—open your ears. Don't be callous; just look at these tears of mine. I'm a stranger here. I don't know my way— a migrant like my whole family. Give me a break, cut me some slack before it's too late and I'm out of here."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace,.... Peace with God in Christ through his blood, in a way of believing, and as the fruit and effect of his righteousness being received by faith; this is not always felt, received, and enjoyed in the soul; yet the foundation of it always is, and is perfect; and besides, this peace is true, real, and solid; in which sense the word "perfect" is used, in opposition to a false and imaginary one; and it will end in perfect peace in heaven: moreover, the word "perfect" is not in the Hebrew text, it is there "peace, peace"; which is doubled to denote the certainty of it, the enjoyment of it, and the constancy and continuance of it; and as expressive of all sorts of peace, which God grants unto his people, and keeps for them, and them in; as peace with God and peace with men, peace outward and peace inward, peace here and peace hereafter; and particularly it denotes the abundance of peace that believers will have in the kingdom of Christ in the latter day; see Psalms 72:7:

[whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]; or "fixed" on the love of God, rooted and grounded in that, and firmly persuaded of interest in it, and that nothing can separate from it; on the covenant and promises of God, which are firm and sure; and on the faithfulness and power of God to make them good, and perform them; and on Christ the Son of God, and Saviour of men; upon him as a Saviour, laying the whole stress of their salvation on him; upon his righteousness, for their justification; upon his blood and sacrifice, for atonement, pardon, and cleansing; on his fulness, for the supply of their wants; on his person, for their acceptance with God; and on his power, for their protection and preservation; see Isaiah 10:20:

because he trusteth in thee; not in the creature, nor in any creature enjoyment, nor in their riches, nor in their righteousness, nor in their own hearts, nor in any carnal privileges: only in the Lord, as exhorted to in the next verse Isaiah 26:4; in the Word of the Lord, as the Targum, that is, in Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou wilt keep him - The following verses to Isaiah 26:11, contain moral and religious reflections, and seem designed to indicate the resignation evinced by the ‘righteous nation’ during their long afflictions. Their own feelings they are here represented as uttering in the form of general truths to be sources of consolation to others.

In perfect peace - Hebrew as in the Margin, ‘Peace, peace;’ the repetition of the word denoting, as is usual in Hebrew, emphasis, and here evidently meaning undisturbed, perfect peace. That is, the mind that has confidence in God shall not be agitated by the trials to which it shall be subject; by persecution, poverty, sickness, want, or bereavement. The inhabitants of Judea had been borne to a far distant land. They had been subjected to reproaches and to scorn Psalms 137:1-9; had been stripped of their property and honor; and had been reduced to the condition of prisoners and captives. Yet their confidence in God had not been shaken. They still trusted in him; still believed that he could and would deliver them. Their mind was, therefore, kept in entire peace. So it was with the Redeemer when he was persecuted and maligned (1 Peter 2:23; compare Luke 23:46). And so it has been with tens of thousands of the confessors and martyrs, and of the persecuted and afflicted people of God, who have been enabled to commit their cause to him, and amidst the storms of persecution, and even in the prison and at the stake, have been kept in perfect peace.

Whose mind is stayed on thee - Various interpretations have been given of this passage, but our translation has probably hit upon the exact sense. The word which is rendered ‘mind’ (יצר yētser) is derived from יצר yâtsar to form, create, devise; and it properly denotes that which is formed or made Psalms 103:14; Isaiah 29:16, Hebrews 2:18. Then it denotes anything that is formed by the mind - its thoughts, imaginations, devices Genesis 8:21; Deuteronomy 31:21. Here it may mean the thoughts themselves, or the mind that forms the thoughts. Either interpretation suits the connection, and will make sense. The expression, ‘is stayed on thee,’ in the Hebrew does not express the idea that the mind is stayed on God, though that is evidently implied. The Hebrew is simply, whose mind is stayed, supported (סמוּך sâmûk); that is, evidently, supported by God. There is no other support but that; and the connection requires us to understand this of him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 26:3. In perfect peace — שלום שלום shalom, shalom, "peace, peace," i.e., peace upon peace - all kinds of prosperity - happiness in this world and in the world to come.

Because he trusteth in thee - "Because they have trusted in thee"] So the Chaldee, בטחו betacho. The Syriac and Vulgate read בטחנו batachnu, "we have trusted." Schroeder, Gram. Heb. p. 360, explains the present reading בטוח batuach, impersonally, confisum est.


 
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