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Isaiah 26 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 26
A Song of Salvation
A Hymn of Praise
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1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
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​​“We have a strong city;
​​God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.
2 ​​Open the gates,
​​That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
3 ​​You will keep him in perfect peace,
​​Whose mind is stayed on You,
​​Because he trusts in You.
4 ​​Trust in the LORD forever,
​​For in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.[fn]
5 ​​For He brings down those who dwell on high,
​​The lofty city;
​​He lays it low,
​​He lays it low to the ground,
​​He brings it down to the dust.
6 ​​The foot shall tread it down—
​​The feet of the poor
​​And the steps of the needy.”
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7 ​​The way of the just is uprightness;
​​O Most Upright,
​​You weigh the path of the just.
8 ​​Yes, in the way of Your judgments,
​​O LORD, we have waited for You;
​​The desire of our soul is for Your name
​​And for the remembrance of You.
9 ​​With my soul I have desired You in the night,
​​Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early;
​​For when Your judgments are in the earth,
​​The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
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10 ​​Let grace be shown to the wicked,
​​Yet he will not learn righteousness;
​​In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly,
​​And will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 ​​LORD, when Your hand is lifted up, they will not see.
​​But they will see and be ashamed
​​For their envy of people;
​​Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.
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12 ​​LORD, You will establish peace for us,
​​For You have also done all our works in us.
13 ​​O LORD our God, masters besides You
​​Have had dominion over us;
​​But by You only we make mention of Your name.
14 ​​They are dead, they will not live;
​​They are deceased, they will not rise.
​​Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
​​And made all their memory to perish.
15 ​​You have increased the nation, O LORD,
​​You have increased the nation;
​​You are glorified;
​​You have expanded all the borders of the land.
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16 ​​LORD, in trouble they have visited You,
​​They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
17 ​​As a woman with child
​​Is in pain and cries out in her pangs,
​​When she draws near the time of her delivery,
​​So have we been in Your sight, O LORD.
18 ​​We have been with child, we have been in pain;
​​We have, as it were, brought forth wind;
​​We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,
​​Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
​
19 ​​Your dead shall live;
​​Together with my dead body[fn] they shall arise.
​​Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust;
​​For your dew is like the dew of herbs,
​​And the earth shall cast out the dead.
Take Refuge from the Coming Judgment
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20 ​​Come, my people, enter your chambers,
​​And shut your doors behind you;
​​Hide yourself, as it were, 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 will also disclose her blood,
​​And will no more cover her slain.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Or Rock of Ages
Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Syriac and Targum read their dead bodies; Septuagint reads those in the tombs.
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