There is no other support but that and the connection requires us to understand this of him. First, ask God to quiet your mind and to speak to you. The Hebrew is simply, whose mind is stayed, supported (סמוּך sâmûk) that is, evidently, supported by God. The expression, 'is stayed on thee,' in the Hebrew does not express the idea that the mind is stayed on God, though that is evidently implied. Either interpretation suits the connection, and will make sense. Here it may mean the thoughts themselves, or the mind that forms the thoughts. Then it denotes anything that is formed by the mind - its thoughts, imaginations, devices Genesis 8:21 Deuteronomy 31:21. 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 Psalm 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 Psalm 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.
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