The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.”
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The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 26:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 10:19 Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
- Romans 16:20 And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- Joshua 10:24 When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.
- James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
- Revelation 2:26 He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.
- Isaiah 3:15 What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
- Isaiah 25:10 For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
- Isaiah 37:25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
- Isaiah 60:14 The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 50:45 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they will drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.
- Daniel 7:27 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’
- Zephaniah 3:11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.
- Malachi 4:3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Luke 1:51-53 He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
- 1 Corinthians 1:26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain God will set the poor afflicted over the power…
God will set the poor afflicted over the power of the wicked.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 26:6 The foot shall tread it down, [even]…
Isa 26:6 The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the poor, [and] the steps of the needy.
Ver. 6. The foot shall tread it down.] He saith not the hand shall beat it down, but the foot shall spurn down this lofty city, even the feet of the poor and abject ones, as once Samson dealt by the Philistines, {Jdg 15:8} and as men use to spurn base and peasantly fellows that stand in their way. God can, and sometimes doth, to show his power and wisdom, make desolation itself to scale a fort. {Amo 5:10} Men thrust through, to rise up and set whole cities afire, {Jer 37:10} bring to pass mighty things by base and abject means.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain God will bring it under the feet of his…
God will bring it under the feet of his poor, and weak, and despised people.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The foot shall tread it down,.... Trample upon it…
The foot shall tread it down,.... Trample upon it when brought down, laid low, and level with the ground, as mire is trodden in the streets, and straw for the dunghill; as grapes in the winepress, or grass by the feet of cattle: not the foot of a prince, as Aben Ezra observes, or of mighty men; but, as follows,
even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy; these are not the Israelites in a literal sense, as Kimchi explains it; but the spiritual Israel of God; the righteous, as the Targum paraphrases it; the saints of the most High, to whom the kingdom and dominion under the whole heaven will now be given, and who will be just come out of great tribulation; for the words suggest, that the people of God will be a poor and afflicted people, and very feeble, and sore distressed, a little before the destruction of antichrist; but as God has been always used to do his work by the poor and weak things of this world, by mean and feeble instruments, so he will now, and raise his poor and needy ones to a very high and exalted estate; all their enemies shall be subdued and crushed under their feet; see Mal 4:3 Jarchi interprets the feet of the poor of the feet of the King Messiah, according to Zac 9:9.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The needy - God will bring it under the…
The needy - God will bring it under the feet of his poor, and weak, and despised people.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The foot shall tread it down, even the feet…
The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor - That is, evidently, those who had been despised by them, and who had been overcome and oppressed by them. The obvious reference here is to the Jews who had been captives there. The idea is not necessarily that the ‘poor’ referred to here I would be among the conquerors, but that when the Babylonians should be overcome, and their city destroyed, those who were then oppressed should be in circumstances of comparative prosperity. No doubt the Jews, who in subsequent times traveled to the site of Babylon for purposes of traffic, would trample indignantly on the remains of the city where their fathers were captives for seventy years, and would exult in the idea that their own once down-trodden city Jerusalem was in a condition of comparative prosperity. That there were many Jews in Babylon after that city began to decline from its haughtiness and grandeur, we learn expressly from both Philo and Josephus. Thus Philo (De Legatione ad Caium, p. 792) says, that ‘it is known that Babylon and many other satraps were possessed by the Jews, not only by rumour, but by experience.’ So Josephus (Ant. xv. 2.) says, that there were in the time of Hyrcanus many Jews at Babylon.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Needy. The Jews shall behold the ruin of the…
Needy. The Jews shall behold the ruin of the city by Cyrus, (Calmet) who was of a contemptible nation. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain poor-- (Isa 25:4), the once afflicted Jewish captives. "Foot…
poor-- (Isa 25:4), the once afflicted Jewish captives. "Foot shall tread," is figurative for exulting in the fall of God's enemies (Rev 18:20).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. The poor and needy are the Jews, as…
6. The poor and needy are the Jews, as in ch. Isa_25:4. The oppressed triumph over their oppressors. But that they are actually the instruments of Jehovah’s vengeance on the “lofty city” is not necessarily implied.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) Even the feet of the poor . .…
(6) Even the feet of the poor . . .—The downfall of the haughty city is emphasised by the fact that the instruments of its destruction are to be the very people it had oppressed. The “saints of God” are in this sense to judge the world.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The foot shall tread it down; rather, trode it…
The foot shall tread it down; rather, trode it down. The feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy; i.e. the feet of God"s people, the weak and afflicted of this world, trod down ultimately, or brought to destruction and ruin, the great world-power not so much that they were victorious in an actual physical contest, as that they, finally triumphed through God"s judgment on the world-power, which brought it to naught, and left it for his people to show their contempt by trampling upon the smoking ruins.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 26:6 Justice finally occurs when the needy walk all…
26:6 Justice finally occurs when the needy walk all over the ruins of the city where the proud have perished.
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