Isaiah 26

Legacy Standard Bible

⁷ The ^(M)way of the righteous is upright;
O Upright One, ^(N)make the path of the righteous level.
⁸ Indeed, while following the way of ^(O)Your judgments, O Yahweh,
We have hoped for You eagerly;
^(P)Your name—the ^(Q)memory of You—is the desire of our souls.
^9 (R)At night ^[b]my soul longs for You,
Indeed, ^[c]my spirit within me ^(S)seeks You earnestly;
For when the earth ^[d]experiences Your judgments,
The inhabitants of the world ^(T)learn righteousness.
¹⁰ Though the wicked is shown favor,
He does not ^(U)learn righteousness;
He ^(V)deals unjustly in the land of uprightness,
And does not perceive the majesty of Yahweh.

¹¹ O Yahweh, Your hand is raised up high, yet they ^(W)do not behold it.
^[e]They behold ^(X)Your zeal for the people and are put to shame;
Indeed, ^[f](Y)fire will devour Your adversaries.
¹² Yahweh, You will establish ^(Z)peace for us,
Since You have also performed for us all our works.
¹³ O Yahweh our God, ^(AA)other masters besides You have ruled us;
But through You alone we ^(AB)bring Your name to remembrance.
^14 (AC)The dead will not live; the ^[g]departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have ^(AD)visited and destroyed them,
And You have made all remembrance of them perish.
^15 (AE)You have increased the nation, O Yahweh;
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have ^(AF)extended all the borders of the land.
¹⁶ O Yahweh, they visited You ^(AG)in distress;
They ^[h]could only whisper a prayer;
Your chastening was upon them.
^17 (AH)As the ^[i]woman with child draws near to the time to give birth,
She writhes and cries out in her pangs of labor,
Thus were we before You, O Yahweh.
¹⁸ We were ^[j]with child, we writhed in labor;
We ^(AI)gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,
And the ^(AJ)inhabitants of the world ^[k]were not born.
¹⁹ Your ^(AK)dead will live;
^[l]Their corpses will rise.
You who dwell in the dust, ^(AL)awake and shout for joy,
For your dew is as the dew of the ^[m]dawn,
And the earth will ^[n]give birth to the ^[o]departed spirits.

²⁰ Come, my people, ^(AM)enter into your rooms
And close your doors behind you;
Hide for a little ^[p](AN)while
Until ^(AO)indignation passes by.
²¹ For behold, Yahweh is about to ^(AP)come out from His place
To ^(AQ)visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth;
And the earth will ^(AR)reveal her bloodshed
And will no longer cover those of hers who were killed.