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Isaiah 26

Isa. 26:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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With my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
have I desired
'avah (Hebrew #183)
to wish for
KJV usage: covet, (greatly) desire, be desirous, long, lust (after).
Pronounce: aw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
thee in the night
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
h; yea, with my spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
within
qereb (Hebrew #7130)
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
KJV usage: X among, X before, bowels, X unto charge, + eat (up), X heart, X him, X in, inward (X -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, + out of, purtenance, X therein, X through, X within self.
Pronounce: keh'-reb
Origin: from 7126
me will I seek thee early
shachar (Hebrew #7836)
properly, to dawn, i.e. (figuratively) be (up) early at any task (with the implication of earnestness); by extension, to search for (with painstaking)
KJV usage: (do something) betimes, enquire early, rise (seek) betimes, seek diligently) early, in the morning).
Pronounce: shaw-khar'
Origin: a primitive root
: for wheni thy judgments
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
are in the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, the inhabitants
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
of the world
tebel (Hebrew #8398)
the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a partic. land, as Babylonia, Palestine
KJV usage: habitable part, world.
Pronounce: tay-bale'
Origin: from 2986
will learn
lamad (Hebrew #3925)
properly, to goad, i.e. (by implication) to teach (the rod being an Oriental incentive)
KJV usage: (un-) accustomed, X diligently, expert, instruct, learn, skilful, teach(-er, - ing).
Pronounce: law-mad'
Origin: a primitive root
righteousness
tsedeq (Hebrew #6664)
the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
KJV usage: X even, (X that which is altogether) just(-ice), ((un-))right(-eous) (cause, -ly, - ness).
Pronounce: tseh'-dek
Origin: from 6663
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Song of Sol. 3:1• 1On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. (Song of Sol. 3:1)
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Psa. 58:11• 11And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. (Psa. 58:11)

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Earth,
Night,
Righteousness,
Soul; Spirit,
Spirit,
The World

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Ministry on This Verse

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have I.
Psa. 63:6‑7• 6When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches:
 7For thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings will I sing for joy. (Psa. 63:6‑7)
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Psa. 77:2‑3• 2In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.
 3I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. (Psa. 77:2‑3)
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Psa. 119:62• 62At midnight I rise up to give thanks unto thee, because of thy righteous judgments. (Psa. 119:62)
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Psa. 130:6• 6My soul waiteth for the Lord more than the watchers wait for the morning, more than the watchers for the morning. (Psa. 130:6)
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Song of Sol. 3:1‑4• 1On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
 2I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broadways Will I seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
 3The watchmen that go about the city found me:--Have ye seen him whom my soul loveth?
 4--Scarcely had I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me. (Song of Sol. 3:1‑4)
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Song of Sol. 5:2‑8• 2I slept, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved! he knocketh: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, mine undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
 3--I have put off my tunic, how should I put it on? I have washed my feet, how should I pollute them?--
 4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door; And my bowels yearned for him.
 5I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the lock.
 6I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself; he was gone: My soul went forth when he spoke. I sought him, but I found him not; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
 7The watchmen that went about the city found me; They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
 8I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, … What will ye tell him?--That I am sick of love. (Song of Sol. 5:2‑8)
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Luke 6:12• 12And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. (Luke 6:12)
my spirit.
Psa. 63:1• 1A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my *God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water: (Psa. 63:1)
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Prov. 8:17• 17I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me. (Prov. 8:17)
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Matt. 6:33• 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matt. 6:33)
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Mark 1:35• 35And rising in the morning long before day, he went out and went away into a desert place, and there prayed. (Mark 1:35)
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Isa. 27:9• 9By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are crumbled in pieces,--the Asherahs and the sun-images shall not stand. (Isa. 27:9)
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Num. 14:21‑23• 21But as surely as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah!
 22for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
 23shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it. (Num. 14:21‑23)
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Psa. 58:11• 11And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. (Psa. 58:11)
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Psa. 64:9• 9And all men shall fear, and shall declare God's doing; and they shall wisely consider his work. (Psa. 64:9)
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Psa. 83:18• 18That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth. (Psa. 83:18)
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Hos. 5:15• 15I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. (Hos. 5:15)
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Rev. 11:13• 13And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth of the city fell, and seven thousand names of men were slain in the earthquake. And the remnant were filled with fear, and gave glory to the God of the heaven. (Rev. 11:13)
• Favor has been “showed to the wicked” for over nineteen centuries, and unrighteousness is still as rampant, if not more rampant, than ever. The hour approaches when God’s judgments will be let loose in all the earth, and then at last those who come out of the judgments will have learned righteousness. (“Isaiah 26” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.