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Isaiah 26:20

The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 26:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Come, my people … into thy chambers. As when a storm comes, prudence counsels men to seek shelter (), so now the prophet advises his people to put themselves under cover during the coming tempest.

His meaning, probably, is that they should retire into the privacy of communion with God, withdrawing from public affairs and the distractions of a worldly life. Shut thy doors about thee. For a little moment (so in ; and again in , ).

God's estimate of time, we must remember, is not as man's (; ).

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