Isaiah 26
1On that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: A strong city have we; his aid will he grant [us] as walls and defence.
2Open ye the gates, that there may enter in the righteous nation which guardeth the truth.
3The confiding mind wilt thou keep in perfect peace; because he trusteth in thee.
4Trust ye in the Lord unto eternity; for in Yah the Lord is everlasting protection.
5For he bendeth down the dwellers of the height; the lofty fortress—he layeth it low; he layeth it low, along the ground; he casteth it down to the dust.
6The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.
7The path of the just is straight: thou, most upright, dost ever level the road of the just.
8Yea, on the path of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; for thy name, and for the remembrance of thee, was the longing of our soul.
9In my soul have I longed for thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek for thee; for when thy judgments are [sent] on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10If favor be shown to the wicked, he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not regard the majesty of the Lord.
11Lord, thy hand was raised high, but they would not see: oh that they might see, and be ashamed, [thy] zeal for the people; yea, the fire which shall devour them—thy enemies.
12Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for also all our works hast thou accomplished for us.
13O Lord our God, lords have had dominion over us beside thee; [but] of thee only would we make mention,—of thy name.
14[They are] dead, they will not live [again]; [they are] departed, they will not rise [again]; therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made to perish every memorial of them.
15Thou hast done more for the nation, O Lord, thou hast done more for the nation; thou hast glorified thyself: thou hast enlarged all the ends of the earth.
16Lord, in trouble have they sought thee, they poured out earnest prayers when thy chastening was upon them.
17Like as a pregnant woman, that is near giving birth, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs: so have we been in thy presence, O Lord.
18We have been pregnant and in pain, [but it was] as though we brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the land; and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
19Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing ye, that dwell in the dust; for a dew on herbs is thy dew, and the earth shall cast out the departed.
20Go, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy door behind thee: hide thyself but for a little moment, until the indignation be passed away.
21For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth on them: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more be a cover over her slain.