Isaiah 26

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• 1. 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.
• 2. Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
• 3. You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
• 4. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.
• 5. 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.
• 6. Feet trample it down- the feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the poor.
• 7. The path of the righteous is level; O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth.
• 8. Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.
• 9. 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.
• 10. 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.
• 11. 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.
• 12. LORD, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.
• 13. O LORD, our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor.
• 14. 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.
• 15. 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.
• 16. LORD, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.
• 17. 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.
• 18. 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.
• 19. 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.
• 20. Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.
• 21. 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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