Isaiah 26:20-21
What is written? (ESV)
Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by. For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
What does it say?
My people! Hide yourselves for a little while inside your homes and shut the doors behind you until the fury has passed. Behold, God is coming out from His abode to punish the wicked on the earth which will show all the bloodshed and no longer conceal her dead.
What is its immediate context?
After several oracles/judgments on specific nations such as Cush, Egypt, Moab, Tyre, etc. in the preceding chapters 15-23, Isaiah seems to turn to a broader declaration of judgment on all mankind in chapter 24. This begins a particular concentration of “in/on that day” declarations that are dispersed throughout chapters 24-27. Often, but not always, these declarations are describing circumstances that are fulfilled in the first century and the coming of Christ and His kingdom.
How Isaiah 26:20-21 is applied across Bible answers
Has Jesus already returned (Revelation 22:20)?
God, through Isaiah, tells the people to hide "for a little while" for a devastating judgment on the wicked.
God gives instruction regarding a judgment we still have yet to experience nearly 3,000 years later.
