26 Hast thou not heard how I have of old time made it, [a]and have formed it long ago? and should I now bring it, that it should be destroyed, and laid on ruinous heaps, as cities defensed?

27 Whose inhabitants have [b]small power, and are afraid and confounded: they are like the grass of the field and green herb, or grass on the house tops, or corn blasted [c]afore it be grown.

28 But I know thy dwelling, and thy [d]going out, and thy coming in, and thy fury against me.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:26 Signifying, that God made not his Church to destroy it, but to preserve it: and therefore he saith that he formed it of old, even in his eternal counsel which cannot be changed.
  2. Isaiah 37:27 Hebrew, are short in hand.
  3. Isaiah 37:27 He showeth that the state and power of most flourishing cities endureth but a moment in respect of the Church, which shall remain forever, because God is the maintainer thereof.
  4. Isaiah 37:28 Meaning, his counsels and enterprises.

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