KJV King James Version
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
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Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
WEB World English Bible
Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
ASV American Standard Version
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 26
17 Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
לֵ֤ךְH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentעַמִּי֙H5971 · ampeopleבֹּ֣אH935 · boto come (in): comeבַחֲדָרֶ֔יךָH2315 · che.derchamberוּֽסְגֹ֥רH5462 · sa.garto shutדְּלָתְךָ֖H1817 · daldoorבַּעֲדֶ֑ךָH1157 · be.adabout/through/forחֲבִ֥יH2247 · cha.vahto hideכִמְעַט־H4592 · me.atlittleרֶ֖גַעH7281 · re.gamomentעַד־H5704 · adtillיַעֲבָרH5674 · a.varto passזָֽעַם׃H2195 · za.amindignation
Cross-references
Psalm 30:5For his anger [endureth but] a moment; in his favour [is] life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy [cometh] in the morning.Psalm 27:5For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.Isaiah 54:7-8For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.Matthew 6:6But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.Psalm 91:4He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.Proverbs 18:10The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.Psalm 17:8Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,2 Corinthians 4:17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;Psalm 32:7Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.Isaiah 10:25For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.Isaiah 51:4Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.Psalm 91:1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.Exodus 12:22-23And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that [is] in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.Psalm 31:20Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.Ezekiel 11:16Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.Isaiah 51:16And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou [art] my people.Isaiah 32:18-19And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;Psalm 143:9Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
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