Isaiah 26

¹In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.

²Open the gates, That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.

³You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.

⁴Trust in the Lord For in Yah

⁵For He brings down those who dwell on high, The lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He brings it down to the dust.

⁶The foot shall tread it down— The feet of the poor And the steps of the needy.”

⁷The way of the just is uprightness; O Most Upright, You weigh the path of the just.

⁸Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O Lord The desire of our soul is for Your name And for the remembrance of You.

⁹With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

¹⁰Let grace be shown to the wicked, Yet he will not learn righteousness; In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, And will not behold the majesty of the Lord

¹¹Lord But they will see and be ashamed For their envy of people; Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.

¹²Lord For You have also done all our works in us.

¹³O Lord Have had dominion over us; But by You only we make mention of Your name.

¹⁴They are dead, they will not live; They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish.

¹⁵You have increased the nation, O Lord You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You have expanded all the borders of the land.

¹⁶Lord They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

¹⁷As a woman with child Is in pain and cries out in her pangs, When she draws near the time of her delivery, So have we been in Your sight, O Lord

¹⁸We have been with child, we have been in pain; We have, as it were, brought forth wind; We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth, Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

¹⁹Your dead shall live; Together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew is like the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.

²⁰Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, Until the indignation is past.

²¹For behold, the Lord To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, And will no more cover her slain.