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ISAIAH ยท Chapter 26
26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have
a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
26:2 Open all of you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps
the truth may enter in.
26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you:
because he trusts in you.
26:4 Trust all of you in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH
is everlasting strength:
26:5 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 even to the
dust.
26:6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the
steps of the needy.
26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh
the path of the just.
26:8 Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for
you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance of
you.
26:9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit
within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
26:10 Let favour be showed 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.
26:11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they
shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of
your enemies shall devour them.
26:12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought
all our works in us.
26:13 O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion over
us: but by you only will we make mention of your name.
26:14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall
not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their
memory to perish.
26:15 You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the
nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far unto all the ends of
the earth.
26:16 LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer
when your chastening was upon them.
26:17 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 your sight,
O LORD.
26:18 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;
neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
26:19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they
arise. Awake and sing, all of you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as
the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
26:20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your
doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the
indignation pass over.
26:21 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.
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