Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 26:6
The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the poor, [and] the steps of the needy.
6. The poor and needy are the Jews, as in ch. Isa 25:4. The oppressed triumph over their oppressors. But that they are actually the instruments of Jehovah’s vengeance on the “lofty city” is not necessarily implied.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor – That is, evidently, those who had been despised by them, and who had been overcome and oppressed by them. The obvious reference here is to the Jews who had been captives there. The idea is not necessarily that the poor referred to here I would be among the conquerors, but that when the Babylonians should be overcome, and their city destroyed, those who were then oppressed should be in circumstances of comparative prosperity. No doubt the Jews, who in subsequent times traveled to the site of Babylon for purposes of traffic, would trample indignantly on the remains of the city where their fathers were captives for seventy years, and would exult in the idea that their own once down-trodden city Jerusalem was in a condition of comparative prosperity. That there were many Jews in Babylon after that city began to decline from its haughtiness and grandeur, we learn expressly from both Philo and Josephus. Thus Philo (De Legatione ad Caium, p. 792) says, that it is known that Babylon and many other satraps were possessed by the Jews, not only by rumour, but by experience. So Josephus (Ant. xv. 2.) says, that there were in the time of Hyrcanus many Jews at Babylon.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
God will bring it under the feet of his poor, and weak, and despised people.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
6. poor (Isa25:4), the once afflicted Jewish captives. “Foot shalltread,” is figurative for exulting in the fall of God’senemies (Re 18:20).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The foot shall tread it down,…. Trample upon it when brought down, laid low, and level with the ground, as mire is trodden in the streets, and straw for the dunghill; as grapes in the winepress, or grass by the feet of cattle: not the foot of a prince, as Aben Ezra observes, or of mighty men; but, as follows,
[even] the feet of the poor, [and] the steps of the needy; these are not the Israelites in a literal sense, as Kimchi explains it; but the spiritual Israel of God; the righteous, as the Targum paraphrases it; the saints of the most High, to whom the kingdom and dominion under the whole heaven will now be given, and who will be just come out of great tribulation; for the words suggest, that the people of God will be a poor and afflicted people, and very feeble, and sore distressed, a little before the destruction of antichrist; but as God has been always used to do his work by the poor and weak things of this world, by mean and feeble instruments, so he will now, and raise his poor and needy ones to a very high and exalted estate; all their enemies shall be subdued and crushed under their feet; see Mal 4:3 Jarchi interprets the feet of the poor of the feet of the King Messiah, according to Zec 9:9.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(6) Even the feet of the poor . . .The downfall of the haughty city is emphasised by the fact that the instruments of its destruction are to be the very people it had oppressed. The saints of God are in this sense to judge the world.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Isa 26:6 The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the poor, [and] the steps of the needy.
Ver. 6. The foot shall tread it down. ] He saith not the hand shall beat it down, but the foot shall spurn down this lofty city, even the feet of the poor and abject ones, as once Samson dealt by the Philistines, Jdg 15:8 and as men use to spurn base and peasantly fellows that stand in their way. God can, and sometimes doth, to show his power and wisdom, make desolation itself to scale a fort. Amo 5:10 Men thrust through, to rise up and set whole cities afire, Jer 37:10 bring to pass mighty things by base and abject means.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
poor = wretched, afflicted. Here singular. Hebrew. amah. See note on Pro 6:11.
needy = lowly ones.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Isa 25:10, Isa 37:25, Isa 60:14, Jos 10:24, Jer 50:45, Dan 7:27, Zep 3:11, Mal 4:3, Luk 1:51-53, Luk 10:19, Rom 16:20, 1Co 1:26, Jam 2:5, Rev 2:26, Rev 3:9
Reciprocal: Jos 3:15 – the feet Psa 78:34 – General Isa 28:3 – shall Isa 63:6 – I will bring Mic 7:10 – now 1Co 1:27 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
26:6 The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the {f} poor, [and] the steps of the needy.
(f) God will set the poor afflicted over the power of the wicked.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
The feet of God’s afflicted and helpless people will trample the fallen world (cf. Mat 5:1-12), but it is the Lord alone who will subdue it.