LORD, in trouble have they {p} visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

(p) That is, the faithful by the rods were moved to pray to you for deliverance.

Wesley's Notes

26:16 They - Thy people. Visited - Come into thy presence, with their prayers and supplications.

King James Translators' Notes

prayer: Heb. secret speech

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. visited-sought.

poured out-(Ps 62:8), as a vessel emptying out all its contents.

prayer-literally, "a whispered prayer," Margin, "a secret sighing" to God for help (compare Jer 13:17; De 8:16).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:12-19 Every creature, every business, any way serviceable to our comfort, God makes to be so; he makes that work for us which seemed to make against us. They had been slaves of sin and Satan; but by the Divine grace they were taught to look to be set free from all former masters. The cause opposed to God and his kingdom will sink at last. See our need of afflictions. Before, prayer came drop by drop; now they pour it out, it comes now like water from a fountain. Afflictions bring us to secret prayer. Consider Christ as the Speaker addressing his church. His resurrection from the dead was an earnest of all the deliverance foretold. The power of his grace, like the dew or rain, which causes the herbs that seem dead to revive, would raise his church from the lowest state. But we may refer to the resurrection of the dead, especially of those united to Christ.