6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
6 Feet trample it down- the feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the poor.
6 The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy."
6 All the exploited and outcast peoples build their lives on the reclaimed land.
6 The foot shall tread it down-- The feet of the poor And the steps of the needy."
6 The poor and oppressed trample it underfoot, and the needy walk all over it.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 26:6
Commentary on Isaiah 26:5-11
(Read Isaiah 26:5-11)
The way of the just is evenness, a steady course of obedience and holy conversation. And it is their happiness that God makes their way plain and easy. It is our duty, and will be our comfort, to wait for God, to keep up holy desires toward him in the darkest and most discouraging times. Our troubles must never turn us from God; and in the darkest, longest night of affliction, with our souls must we desire him; and this we must wait and pray to him for. We make nothing of our religion, whatever our profession may be, if we do not make heart-work of it. Though we come ever so early, we shall find God ready to receive us. The intention of afflictions is to teach righteousness: blessed is the man whom the Lord thus teaches. But sinners walk contrary to him. They will go on in their evil ways, because they will not consider what a God he is whose laws they persist in despising. Scorners and the secure will shortly feel, what now they will not believe, that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. They will not see the evil of sin; but they shall see. Oh that they would abandon their sins, and turn to the Lord, that he may have mercy upon them.