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1On that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
“We have a strong city;
2Open the gates so that the righteous nation who keeps faithfulness may enter![#Or “and”]
3You will protect a firm inclination in peace,
4Trust in Yahweh forever,
5For he has thrown down the inhabitants of the height,
He lays it low to the ground;
6The foot tramples it,
7The way of the righteous is a straight path;
8Surely we wait for you in the path of your judgments, Yahweh,
9I desire you with all my soul in the night;
for when your judgments are upon the earth,
10Though the wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness;
he acts unjustly in the land of uprightness,
11Yahweh, though your hand reaches high, they do not see it.
Let them see, and let them be ashamed of the zeal of people.
12Yahweh, you will establish peace for us,
13Yahweh, our God, lords besides you ruled over us,
14The dead do not live;
because you have punished and destroyed them,
15You have added to the nation, Yahweh.
16Yahweh, in distress they have visited you;
17Like a pregnant woman on the point of giving birth, she writhes;
So we were because of your presence, Yahweh.
18We became pregnant, we writhed;
We cannot bring about deliverance on the earth,
19Your dead shall live; their corpses shall rise.[#Literally “my corpse;” some manuscripts propose an emendation to the suffix to change it to third person masculine plural (“their corpses”), which makes better sense]
for your dew is celestial dew,
20Go, my people, enter into your chambers
hide for a very little while,
21For look! Yahweh is about to come out from his place
to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth against him,
and the earth will disclose her blood