Isaiah 26:16
Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
Isaiah 26:16 in other translations
| BSB | O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer. |
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| WEB | LORD, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them. |
| ASV | Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. |
| YLT | O Jehovah, in distress they missed Thee, They have poured out a whisper, Thy chastisement is on them. |
| DARBY | Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out their whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them. |
| BBE | Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us. |
| Webster | LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. |
What does Isaiah 26:16 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 26:12-19
Every creature, every business, any way serviceable to our comfort, God makes to be so; he makes that work for us which seemed to make against us. They had been slaves of sin and Satan; but by the Divine grace they were taught to look to be set free from all former masters. The cause opposed to God and his kingdom will sink at last. See our need of afflictions. Before, prayer came drop by drop; now they pour it out…
Isaiah 26:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 26:16
- Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
- Psalms 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
- Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
- Psalms 77:1-2
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
- Psalms 91:15
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
- 2 Chronicles 6:37-38
Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly; If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
- Hosea 7:14
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
- Isaiah 37:3
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
- Judges 10:9-10
Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed. And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
- Deuteronomy 4:29-30
But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
- 2 Chronicles 33:12-13
And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.
- Jeremiah 22:23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
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Context
- Isaiah 26:15
Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
- Isaiah 26:16
Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
- Isaiah 26:17
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.
Isaiah 26:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Jehová, en la tribulación te buscaron: derramaron oración cuando los castigaste. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Éternel, dans la détresse ils t’ont cherché; ils ont épanché leur prière à voix basse, lorsque tu les as châtiés. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jehova, in der Bedrängnis haben sie dich gesucht; als deine Züchtigung sie traf, flehten sie mit flüsterndem Gebet. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Domine, in angustia requisierunt te, in tribulatione murmuris doctrina tua eis. |