Isaiah 37:26

Isaiah 37:26 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
• New International Version (NIV)“Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"'Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Did you not hear long ago How I made it, From ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought it to pass, That you should be For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

Context of Isaiah 37:26

24Through your servants, you have blasphemed my Lord and said: ‘With my many chariots I have climbed to the heights of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon! I cut down its tall cedars and choice cypress trees. I have gone to its farthest peak, its thickest forest. 25I dug and drank water, and with the sole of my feet, I dried up all the streams of Egypt.’ Have you not heard? I did it long ago! From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass— that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of rubble. 27Their inhabitants are weak handed, shattered and ashamed. They are like the grass of the field and green herb, like grass on roofs, scorched before it is grown up. 28But I know your sitting down, your going out and your coming in, and your raging against Me.

Isaiah 37:26 word by word

הֲלֽוֹא־שָׁמַ֤עְתָּ לְמֵֽרָחוֹק֙ אוֹתָ֣הּ עָשִׂ֔יתִי מִ֥ימֵי קֶ֖דֶם וִיצַרְתִּ֑יהָ עַתָּ֣ה הֲבֵאתִ֔יהָ וּתְהִ֗י לְהַשְׁא֛וֹת גַּלִּ֥ים נִצִּ֖ים עָרִ֥ים בְּצֻרֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Hast thou not heardשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
• long agoרָחֹקrâchôq râchôq · distantH7350
• I have doneעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• of ancientקֶ֫דֶםqedem qêdmâh · front: oldH6924
• timesיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• that I have formedיָצַרyâtsar · to form: planH3335
• it? now have I broughtבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay wasteשָׁאָהshâ'âh · to crashH7582
• defencedבָּצַרbâtsar · to gather/restrain/fortifyH1219
• citiesעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• ruinousנָצָהnâtsâh · to desolateH5327
• heapsגַּלgal · heapH1530

Cross-references for Isaiah 37:26

• Isaiah 10:5Oy to Assyria, the rod of My anger— the club in their hand is My indignation!
• Isaiah 45:7I form light and create darkness. I make shalom and create calamity. I, Adonai, do all these things.
• Isaiah 46:10declaring the end from the beginning, from ancient time, what is yet to come, saying, “My purpose will stand, and I will accomplish all that I please.”
• Genesis 50:20Yes, you yourselves planned evil against me. God planned it for good, in order to bring about what it is this day—to preserve the lives of many people.
• Psalms 17:13Arise, Adonai! Confront him! Make him bow down! Deliver my soul from the wicked with Your sword,
• Psalms 76:10when God rose up to judgment, to save all the humble of the land. Selah
• Amos 3:6If a shofar alarm sounds in a city, will people not tremble? If there is calamity in a city, has not Adonai caused it?
• Acts 2:23this Yeshua, given over by God’s predetermined plan and foreknowledge, nailed to the cross by the hand of lawless men, you killed.
• Acts 4:27“For truly both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together in this city against Your holy Servant Yeshua, whom You anointed.
• 1 Peter 2:8and “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they are disobeying the word—to this they were also appointed.
• Jude 1:4For certain people have secretly slipped in—those who from long ago have been marked out for this judgment. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into indecency and deny our only Master and Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.

Commentaries on Isaiah 37:26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26Lay waste defended cities into ruinous heaps "Lay waste warlike nations; strong fenced cities" - נצים גלים gallim nitstsim . It is not easy to give a satisfactory account of these two words, which have greatly embarrassed all the interpreters, ancient and modern. For גלים gallim I read גוים goyim, as the Septuagint do in this place, . The word נצים netsim the Vulgate renders in this place compugnantium; in the parallel place, 2 Kings 19:25, pugnantium…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26Hast thou not heard - This is evidently the language of God addressed to Sennacherib. It is designed to state to him that he was under his control; that this was the reason Isaiah 37:27 why the inhabitants of the nations had been unable to resist him; that he was entirely in his hands Isaiah 37:28; and that lie would control him as he pleased Isaiah 37:29. Long ago how I have done it - You boast that all this is by your own counsel and power. Yet I have…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26I planned … that you should crush … into piles of rubble: Assyria was God's agent of destruction, but the Assyrians did not understand they were just a tool in God's hand (see Isaiah 10), carrying out what God had planned long ago (Isaiah 14:24–27).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. Reply of God to Sennacherib. long ago--join, rather, with "I have done it." Thou dost boast that it is all by thy counsel and might: but it is I who, long ago, have ordered it so (Is 22:11); thou wert but the instrument in My hands (Is 10:5, 15). This was the reason why "the inhabitants were of small power before thee" (Is 37:27), namely, that I ordered it so; yet thou art in My hands, and I know thy ways (Is 37:28), and I will check thee (Is 37:29)…Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 37:26

• Assyria
• Blasphemy
• Libnah

In the dictionaries

• Hezekiah
• Bible, the
• Chronicles, Books of
• Fence
• Heap
• Hezekiah (2)
• Isaiah
• Ruin
• Sennacherib

Commentaries on Isaiah 37

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings