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Bible Talk — A podcast by 9Marks & Southern Seminary

Isaiah 26: On A Bunch of Load-Bearing, Poetic Metaphors that Point to Being Born Again, Again (Ep. 173)

Bible Talk — A podcast by 9Marks & Southern Seminary

9Marks

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9852 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Bible Talk, Alex chats with Jim and Sam about Isaiah 26, a dense, metaphor-laden passage that cranes its neck to the glorious future that awaits all those who trust in the LORD.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, guys, have you ever fallen asleep reading a book?

0:03.3

Yeah.

0:23.4

And then, like, you pick it up a few weeks later and you're like, what page am I at? Like, you start reading, you're like, I think I've already read this. Have you ever done that? Many times. Yeah, well, you know, dear listener, maybe you've done that too. Turns out we kind of did the same thing. We recorded an episode on Isaiah 26. Kind of. A half of a, you know,

0:22.7

15 minutes shot on Isaiah 26. We had three or four weeks off of recording because of life.

0:27.0

And we got back together and we recorded another episode on Isaiah 26, not realizing that

0:33.2

we had already done that. And someone drew that attention, drew my attention to that. So

0:37.3

you're about to listen to an

0:39.1

episode that is entirely devoted to Isaiah 26. You might be thinking to yourself, didn't they just

0:43.5

do that? And the answer to that question is yes, kind of. But you're about to listen to it in much

0:48.2

greater detail. So you should listen to it and I promise you we will never fall asleep reading a book

0:52.3

again. Thank you so much.

0:54.3

All right, that's enough.

0:59.2

Welcome to episode 173.

1:02.4

I double-checked that number of Bible Talk, a podcast brought to you by Nine Marks in Southern Seminary.

1:06.7

Southern Seminary exists to educate, train, and equip gospel ministers for a lifetime of more faithful service. And Nine Marks exists to help pastors build healthy churches. For more information, you can go to sbts.edu or nine marks.org. If you want to give us money, not us personally, but the ministry of Nine Marks, Money, Nine Marks.org slash talk is the place to go. My name's Alex Duke with me. Amar my two friends. Sam Amati.

1:27.7

Jim Hamilton.

1:28.5

All right.

1:28.7

So we've already got some disagreement from the jump.

1:30.9

Wait, what?

1:31.6

Yeah.

1:41.3

What? When? Well, I said, guys, we're doing two chapters. Oh, this. And then Jim pops down in his old new seat, his new old seat. And he says, I don't think we're going to do it.

1:42.2

Well, wait a minute.

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