Isaiah 26
- In that day this song will be sung in the
land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.
- Open the gates that the righteous nation
may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
- You will keep in perfect peace him whose
mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
- Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD,
the LORD, is the Rock eternal.
- He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays
the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.
- Feet trample it down -- the feet of the
oppressed, the footsteps of the poor.
- The path of the righteous is level; O upright
One, you make the way of the righteous smooth.
- Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws,
we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.
- My soul yearns for you in the night; in
the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth,
the people of the world learn righteousness.
- Though grace is shown to the wicked, they
do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing
evil and regard not the majesty of the LORD.
- O LORD, your hand is lifted high, but they
do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame;
let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
- LORD, you establish peace for us; all that
we have accomplished you have done for us.
- O LORD, our God, other lords besides you
have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor.
- They are now dead, they live no more; those
departed spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin;
you wiped out all memory of them.
- You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; you
have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for yourself; you have extended
all the borders of the land.
- LORD, they came to you in their distress;
when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.
- As a woman with child and about to give
birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O LORD.
- We were with child, we writhed in pain,
but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth; we
have not given birth to people of the world.
- But your dead will live; their bodies will
rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like
the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.
- Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut
the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has
passed by.
- See, the LORD is coming out of his dwelling
to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose
the blood shed upon her; she will conceal her slain no longer.
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