The Meaning of Isaiah 26:12 Explained

Isaiah 26:12

KJV: LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.

YLT: O Jehovah, Thou appointest peace to us, For, all our works also Thou hast wrought for us.

Darby: Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou also hast wrought all our works for us.

ASV: Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou hast also wrought all our works for us.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

LORD,  thou wilt ordain  peace  for us: for thou also hast wrought  all our works  in us. 

What does Isaiah 26:12 Mean?

Verse Meaning

Yahweh would establish peace for His people ( Isaiah 26:3) because everything that they had done He had really done for them (cf. Philippians 2:12-13). We cannot establish peace for ourselves, but He will. Only He can break through the darkness of human depravity ( Jonah 2:9).

Context Summary

Isaiah 26:11-21 - Chastened By Suffering
When God ordains our peace, a world in arms cannot disturb us. Our peace results from the conviction that God is going before us and preparing our works. But be careful to make mention of His name, that is, to give Him the glory.
Do not be afraid of your enemies. When God brings you back from the ends of the earth, He will free you from their toils and snares. Let us, as Isaiah 26:16 suggests, pour out our prayers, as a vessel its contents; though, as the Hebrew signifies, those prayers are but whispers. It is true that apart from God we work no deliverance in the earth, Isaiah 26:18, but when He speaks, even the dead live. Jesus, the resurrection and the life, speaks in Isaiah 26:19. What comfort results to those that dwell in the dust of self-abasement and despair to look up to the ever-living Christ, from whom streams of life-giving energy come to believing hearts! Arise and sing, thou broken heart: even now the stone is being rolled from the door of thy sepulcher; the morning dew is distilling upon thee. Cast out by earth, thou shalt be welcomed by heaven, and sheltered in God's secret place till the storm-burst has spent itself. [source]

Chapter Summary: Isaiah 26

1  Trust in God's Provision

What do the individual words in Isaiah 26:12 mean?

Yahweh You will establish peace for us for also all our works You have done in us
יְהוָ֕ה תִּשְׁפֹּ֥ת שָׁל֖וֹם לָ֑נוּ כִּ֛י גַּ֥ם כָּֽל־ מַעֲשֵׂ֖ינוּ פָּעַ֥לְתָּ לָּֽנוּ

יְהוָ֕ה  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
תִּשְׁפֹּ֥ת  You  will  establish 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: שָׁפַת  
Sense: to set, place, put, ordain.
שָׁל֖וֹם  peace 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: שָׁלֹום  
Sense: completeness, soundness, welfare, peace.
לָ֑נוּ  for  us 
Parse: Preposition, first person common plural
גַּ֥ם  also 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: גַּם  
Sense: also, even, indeed, moreover, yea.
מַעֲשֵׂ֖ינוּ  our  works 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common plural
Root: מַעֲשֶׂה  
Sense: deed, work.
פָּעַ֥לְתָּ  You  have  done 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, second person masculine singular
Root: פָּעַל  
Sense: to do, make.
לָּֽנוּ  in  us 
Parse: Preposition, first person common plural