Yesaya 26:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Kami mengandung, kami menggeliat sakit, tetapi seakan-akan kami melahirkan angin: kami tidak dapat mengadakan keselamatan di bumi, dan tiada lahir penduduk dunia.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kami mengandung, kami menggeliat sakit, tetapi seakan-akan kami melahirkan angin: kami tidak dapat mengadakan keselamatan di bumi, dan tiada lahir penduduk dunia.

Contextual Overview

¹² Lorde vnto vs thou shalt prouide peace: for thou also hast wrought all our workes in vs. ¹³ O Lord our God, other lordes beside thee hath subdued vs: but we wyll be mindfull only of thee and of thy name. ¹⁴ The dead wyll not liue, they that be out of life will not ryse agayne, therfore hast thou visited and rooted them out, and destroyed all the memorie of them. ¹⁵ Thou hast increased the people, O Lorde, thou hast increased the people, thou art glorious, thou hast sent them farre of vnto all the coastes of the earth. ¹⁶ Lorde, in trouble haue they visited thee, they powred out their prayer whe thy chastening was vpon them. ¹⁷ Like as a woman with chylde that draweth nye towardes her trauayle is sorie and cryeth in her paynes: euen so haue we ben in thy sight O Lorde. ¹⁸ We haue ben with chylde and suffred paine, as though we had brought forth winde: for there is no saluation in the earth, neither do the inhabiters of the worlde submit them selues. ¹⁹ Thy dead men shall liue, euen as my body shall they rise againe: Awake and sing ye that dwell in dust, for thy deawe is euen as the deawe of hearbes, and the earth shall cast out them that be vnder her.

Bible Verse Review
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we have been in: Isaiah 37:3, 2 Kings 19:3, Hosea 13:13

we have not: Exodus 5:22, Exodus 5:23, Joshua 7:7-9, 1 Samuel 11:13, 1 Samuel 14:45

the inhabitants: Psalms 17:14, John 7:7, 1 John 5:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:16 - in sorrow Ecclesiastes 5:16 - for Jeremiah 48:41 - as the heart

Cross-References

Genesis 21:31
Wherefore the place is called Beer seba, because that there they sware both of them.

Numbers 32:38
Nebo, Baalmeon, and turned their names, and Sibama also: and gaue other names vnto the cities which they builded.

Psalms 16:4
As for them that runne [after] another [God] they shall haue great trouble: I wyll not offer their drynke offerynges of blood, neither wyll I make mention of their names within my lyppes.

Hosea 2:17
For I wyll take away those names of Baal from her mouth, yea she shall neuer remember their names any more.

Zechariah 13:2
And then saith the Lorde of hoastes, I wyll destroy the names of the idols out of the lande: so that they shal no more be put in remembraunce: As for the false prophetes also, and the vncleane spirites, I wyl take them out of the lande.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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" f; 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.

f ישועות בל נעשה ארץ "res salutum non est facta", Vatablus; "salates non fit terra", Montanus; "salutes non factae sunt terrae", Tigurine version; "non sunt factae in terra", Pagninus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

We have been ... - This refers to sorrows and calamities which they had experienced in former times, when they had made great efforts for deliverance, and when those efforts had proved abortive. Perhaps it refers to the efforts of this kind which they had made during their painful captivity of seventy years. There is no direct proof indeed, that during that time they attempted to revolt, or that they organized themselves for resistance to the Babylonian power; but there can be no doubt that they earnestly desired deliverance, and that their condition was one of extreme pain and anguish - a condition that is strikingly represented here by the pains of childbirth. Nay, it is not improbable that during that long period there may have been abortive efforts made at deliverance, and that here they refer to those efforts as having accomplished nothing.

We have as it were brought forth wind - Our efforts have availed nothing. Michaelis, as quoted by Lowth, explains this figure in the following manner: ‘Rariorem morbum describi, empneumatosin, aut ventosam molam dictum; quo quae laborant diu et sibi, et peritis medicis gravidae videntur, tandemque post omnes verae gravitatis molestias et labores ventum ex utero emittant; quem morbum passim describunt medici.’ (Syntagma Comment. vol. ii. p. 165.) Grotius thinks that the reference is to birds, ‘Quae edunt ova subventanea,’ and refers to Pliny x. 58. But the correct reference is, doubtless, that which is mentioned by Michaelis.

Neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen - We had no power to subdue them; and notwithstanding all our exertions their dominion was unbroken. This refers to the Babylonians who had dominion over the captive Jews.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 26:18. We have - brought forth wind — The learned Professor Michaelis explains this image in the following manner: "Rariorem morbum describi, empneumatosin, aut ventosam molam, dictum; quo quae laborant diu et sibi et peritis medicis gravidae videntur,tandemque post omnes verae graviditatis molestias et labored ventum ex utero emittunt: quem morbum passim describunt medici." Syntagma Comment., vol. ii., p. 165. The empneumatosis, or windy inflation of the womb, is a disorder to which females are liable. Some have had this in such wise, for a long time together, that they have appeared to themselves, and even to very skilful medical men, to be pregnant; and after having endured much pain, and even the throes of apparent childbearing, they have been eased and restored to health by the emission of a great quantity of wind from the uterus. This disorder is well known to medical men." The Syriac translator seems to have understood it in this manner: Enixi sumus, ut illae quae ventos pariunt. "We have brought forth as they who bring forth wind."

In the earth - "In the land"] בארץ bearets; so a MS., the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate.