The word which is rendered ‘mind’ ( יצר yētser) is derived from יצר yâtsar to form, create, devise and it properly denotes that which is formed or made Psalms 103:14 Isaiah 29:16, Hebrews 2:18. Whose mind is stayed on thee - Various interpretations have been given of this passage, but our translation has probably hit upon the exact sense. And so it has been with tens of thousands of the confessors and martyrs, and of the persecuted and afflicted people of God, who have been enabled to commit their cause to him, and amidst the storms of persecution, and even in the prison and at the stake, have been kept in perfect peace. So it was with the Redeemer when he was persecuted and maligned ( 1 Peter 2:23 compare Luke 23:46). Their mind was, therefore, kept in entire peace. They still trusted in him still believed that he could and would deliver them. Yet their confidence in God had not been shaken. They had been subjected to reproaches and to scorn Psalms 137:1-9 had been stripped of their property and honor and had been reduced to the condition of prisoners and captives. The inhabitants of Judea had been borne to a far distant land. That is, the mind that has confidence in God shall not be agitated by the trials to which it shall be subject by persecution, poverty, sickness, want, or bereavement. In perfect peace - Hebrew as in the Margin, ‘Peace, peace ’ the repetition of the word denoting, as is usual in Hebrew, emphasis, and here evidently meaning undisturbed, perfect peace. Their own feelings they are here represented as uttering in the form of general truths to be sources of consolation to others. Thou wilt keep him - The following verses to Isaiah 26:11, contain moral and religious reflections, and seem designed to indicate the resignation evinced by the ‘righteous nation’ during their long afflictions. By contrast his enemies, symbolized here by fierce monsters, will suffer his deadly punishment (27:1). God’s people need not fear his wrath, for he will protect them when he carries out his work of judgment on a sinful world (20-21). Their victory must therefore lie in the future, when their bodies will be triumphantly raised from death (19).
Many of the godly have died without seeing any victory (16-18).
They feel the disappointment and frustration of a woman who suffers birth pains but produces no child. All their efforts and all their expectations have come to nothing.
The righteous then recall how they have cried to God in their distress, but have received no apparent answer. Their numbers increase, and God’s blessing spreads throughout the land (14-15). In due course, however, the enemies are destroyed, but the righteous have peace. The righteous know that God cares for them, and they respond with loyalty to him, even when they are oppressed by their enemies (12-13). The ungodly do not know God and so cannot live uprightly (10-11). They desire this knowledge for others also, because only when people know God can they truly know what righteousness is (7-9). Godly people long to know God and his ways better, so that they can live righteously according to his directions. God’s city stands for ever the world’s city is smashed to the ground and trampled in the dust (4-6). Those who trust in him have stability and security, but those who trust in themselves are overthrown. It is a city for the righteous, an eternal dwelling place for those who have experienced the perfect peace that comes through complete trust in God (26:1-3). Having destroyed the city built by human hands (that is, humankind’s whole ungodly way of life 25:2), God now builds his city.
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