26:1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks. |
26:2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in. |
26:3 Thou dost keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee. |
26:4 Trust in the LORD for ever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock. |
26:5 For he has brought low the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust. |
26:6 The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy." |
26:7 The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous. |
26:8 In the path of thy judgments, O LORD, we wait for thee; thy memorial name is the desire of our soul. |
26:9 My soul yearns for thee in the night, my spirit within me earnestly seeks thee. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. |
26:10 If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals perversely and does not see the majesty of the LORD. |
26:11 O LORD, thy hand is lifted up, but they see it not. Let them see thy zeal for thy people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for thy adversaries consume them. |
26:12 O LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us, thou hast wrought for us all our works. |
26:13 O LORD our God, other lords besides thee have ruled over us, but thy name alone we acknowledge. |
26:14 They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end thou hast visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them. |
26:15 But thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land. |
26:16 O LORD, in distress they sought thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. |
26:17 Like a woman with child, who writhes and cries out in her pangs, when she is near her time, so were we because of thee, O LORD; |
26:18 we were with child, we writhed, we have as it were brought forth wind. We have wrought no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen. |
26:19 Thy dead shall live, their bodies shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For thy dew is a dew of light, and on the land of the shades thou wilt let it fall. |
26:20 Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past. |
26:21 For behold, the LORD is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their |