13 Lord our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor.
13 O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
13 O Lord our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
13 O God, our God, we've had other masters rule us, but you're the only Master we've ever known.
13 O Lord our God, masters besides You Have had dominion over us; But by You only we make mention of Your name.
13 O Lord our God, others have ruled us, but you alone are the one we worship.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 26:13
Commentary on Isaiah 26:12-19
(Read Isaiah 26:12-19)
Every creature, every business, any way serviceable to our comfort, God makes to be so; he makes that work for us which seemed to make against us. They had been slaves of sin and Satan; but by the Divine grace they were taught to look to be set free from all former masters. The cause opposed to God and his kingdom will sink at last. See our need of afflictions. Before, prayer came drop by drop; now they pour it out, it comes now like water from a fountain. Afflictions bring us to secret prayer. Consider Christ as the Speaker addressing his church. His resurrection from the dead was an earnest of all the deliverance foretold. The power of his grace, like the dew or rain, which causes the herbs that seem dead to revive, would raise his church from the lowest state. But we may refer to the resurrection of the dead, especially of those united to Christ.