Isaiah 26 · ישעיהו

On that day shall this song be sung in the land of Yehuda; We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.

Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faithfulness may enter in:

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusts in Thee.

Trust in the Lord for ever: for the Lord God is an eternal Rock.

For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings it to the dust.

The foot shall trample it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

The way of the just is uprightness: Thou, most upright, dost make level the path of the just.

Indeed, in the way of Thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for Thee; the desire of our soul is to Thy name, and to the remembrance of Thee.

With my soul have I desired Thee in the night; with my spirit within me I seek Thee: for when Thy judgments are on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Let favour be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

Lord, when Thy hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see with shame Thy zeal for the people, the fire which shall devour Thy enemies.

Lord, Thou wilt ordain peace for us: for Thou also hast performed all our works for us.

O Lord our God, other masters besides Thee have had dominion over us: but by Thee only will we make mention of Thy name.

They are dead, they shall not live; the shades of the dead shall not rise: therefore hast Thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, Thou hast increased the nation: Thou art glorified: Thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.

Lord, in trouble have they besought Thee, they poured out a silent prayer when Thy chastening was upon them.

Like a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in Thy sight, O Lord.

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

The dead men of Thy people shall live, my dead body shall arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for Thy dew is as the dew on herbs, and the earth shall cast out the shades of the dead.

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

For, behold, the Lord comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.