Book of Isaiah, Chapter 26
Chapter 26 of Isaiah
¶ “We have a strong city;
he sets up salvation
as walls and bulwarks.
that the righteous nation which keeps faith
may enter in.
whose mind is stayed on thee,
because he trusts in thee.
for the LORD GOD
is an everlasting rock.
the inhabitants of the height,
the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
casts it to the dust.
the feet of the poor,
the steps of the needy.”
thou[a] dost make smooth the path of the righteous.
O LORD, we wait for thee;
thy memorial name
is the desire of our soul.
my spirit within me earnestly seeks thee.
For when thy judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
he does not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness he deals perversely
and does not see the majesty of the LORD.
but they see it not.
Let them see thy zeal for thy people, and be ashamed.
Let the fire for thy adversaries consume them.
thou hast wrought for us all our works.
other lords besides thee have ruled over us,
but thy name alone we acknowledge.
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end thou hast visited them with destruction
and wiped out all remembrance of them.
thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified;
thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.
they poured out a prayer[b]
when thy chastening was upon them.
who writhes and cries out in her pangs,
when she is near her time,
so were we because of thee, O LORD;
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.
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.
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until the wrath is past.
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.FOOTNOTES
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