Isaiah 26

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¹In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah:

We have a strong city,

Salvation will He appoint for walls and bulwarks.

²Open ye the gates, that a righteous nation

Which keepeth the truth may enter in.

³A well-established mind,

Wilt thou preserve in perfect peace;

For in thee it trusteth.

⁴Trust ye in Jehovah for ever;

For Jehovah is the everlasting God, a rock of ages.

⁵For he hath humbled those that dwell on high;

The lofty city, he hath brought her down:

He hath brought her down even to the ground;

He hath levelled her with the dust.

⁶The foot shall trample upon her;

The feet of the afflicted, the steps of the needy.

⁷The way of the righteous is perfectly straight;

Thou, most upright, levellest the path of the righteous.

⁸Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah , we have waited for thee;

To thy name, and the remembrance of thee, is the desire of our soul.

⁹With my soul have I desired thee in the night;

Yea, with my inmost spirit I have sought thee early:

For when thy judgments are in the earth,

The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

¹⁰Though mercy be shewn to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness:

In the land of rectitude he will deal perversely,

And will not regard the majesty of Jehovah .

¹¹Thy hand, O Jehovah , is lifted up, yet will they not see:

But they shall see thy zeal for the people, and shall be ashamed;

Yea, fire shall burn up thine adversaries.

¹²Thou, O Jehovah , wilt ordain peace for us.

For thou hast wrought even all our works for us.

¹³O Jehovah , our God!

Other lords, beside thee, have had dominion over us:

But through thee only will we henceforth make mention of thy name.

¹⁴They are dead, they shall not live;

They are deceased, they shall not rise:

Because thou hast visited, and destroyed them;

And hast abolished all the memorial of them.

¹⁵Thou hast added to the nation, O Jehovah ;

Thou hast added to the nation; thou art glorified:

Thou hast extended far all the borders of the land.

¹⁶O Jehovah , in affliction have they looked up to thee:

They poured out humble supplication, when thy chastening was upon them.

¹⁷Like as a woman with child, when her delivery approacheth,

Is in pain, and crieth out in her travail;

So have we been in thy sight, O Jehovah .

¹⁸We have conceived, we have travailed,

When we gave birth, it was wind:

Therefore the earth hath not gained any relief,

Neither an increase made to the inhabitants of the world.

¹⁹Thy dead shall revive, and our dead bodies shall rise again:

Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust!

For the dew of plants is thy dew;

And the earth shall bring forth the dead.

²⁰Come, my people! retire into thy secret apartments;

And shut thy doors after thee:

Hide thyself for a little moment,

Until the indignation be overpast.

²¹For behold, Jehovah is going forth from his place,

To punish for his iniquity the inhabitant of the earth;

And the earth shall disclose her blood,

And shall no longer cover her slain.