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isaiah 26
1 - In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah:"We have a strong city.God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
2 - Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter:the one which keeps faith.
3 - You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace,because he trusts in you.
4 - Trust in the LORD forever;for in Yah, The LORD, is an everlasting Rock.
5 - For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city.He lays it low.He lays it low even to the ground.He brings it even to the dust.
6 - The foot shall tread it down;Even the feet of the poor,and the steps of the needy."
7 - The way of the just is uprightness.You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
8 - Yes, in the way of your judgments, The LORD, have we waited for you.Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
9 - With my soul I have desired you in the night.Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly;for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10 - Let favor be shown to the wicked,yet he will not learn righteousness.In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully,and will not see The LORD's majesty.
11 - The LORD, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see;but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed.Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
12 - The LORD, you will ordain peace for us,for you have also done all our work for us.
13 - The LORD our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us,but by you only will we make mention of your name.
14 - The dead shall not live.The departed spirits shall not rise.Therefore you have visited and destroyed them,and caused all memory of them to perish.
15 - You have increased the nation, O The LORD.You have increased the nation!You are glorified!You have enlarged all the borders of the land.
16 - The LORD, in trouble they have visited you.They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
17 - Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery,is in pain and cries out in her pangs;so we have been before you, The LORD.
18 - We have been with child.We have been in pain.We gave birth, it seems, only to wind.We have not worked any deliverance in the earth;neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 - Your dead shall live.My dead bodies shall arise.Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;for your dew is like the dew of herbs,and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
20 - Come, my people, enter into your rooms,and shut your doors behind you.Hide yourself for a little moment,until the indignation is past.
21 - For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
