Isaiah 26 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Song of Trust in God's Protection

Isa 26:1In 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.

Isa 26:2

Isa 26:2Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.

Isa 26:3

Isa 26:3Thou dost keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee.

Isa 26:4

Isa 26:4Trust in the LORD for ever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.

Isa 26:5

Isa 26:5For 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.

Isa 26:6

Isa 26:6The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy."

Isa 26:7

Isa 26:7The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous.

Isa 26:8

Isa 26:8In the path of thy judgments, O LORD, we wait for thee; thy memorial name is the desire of our soul.

Isa 26:9

Isa 26:9My 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.

Isa 26:10

Isa 26:10If 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.

Isa 26:11

Isa 26:11O 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.

Isa 26:12

Isa 26:12O LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us, thou hast wrought for us all our works.

Isa 26:13

Isa 26:13O LORD our God, other lords besides thee have ruled over us, but thy name alone we acknowledge.

Isa 26:14

Isa 26:14They 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.

Isa 26:15

Isa 26:15But thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.

Isa 26:16

Isa 26:16O LORD, in distress they sought thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Isa 26:17

Isa 26:17Like 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;

Isa 26:18

Isa 26:18we 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.

Isa 26:19

Isa 26:19Thy 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.

Isa 26:20

Isa 26:20Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past.

Isa 26:21

Isa 26:21For behold, the LORD is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain.

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Isaiah 26 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Song of Trust in God's Protection

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