Isaiah 26:1-8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Judah’s Song of Victory

26 On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city;
    he sets up victory
    like walls and bulwarks.
²Open the gates,
    so that the righteous nation that keeps faith
    may enter in.
³Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace—
    in peace because they trust in you.
⁴Trust in the Lord forever,
    for in the Lord God^[a]
    you have an everlasting rock.
⁵For he has brought low
    the inhabitants of the height;
    the lofty city he lays low.
He lays it low to the ground,
    casts it to the dust.
⁶The foot tramples it,
    the feet of the poor,
    the steps of the needy.

⁷The way of the righteous is level;
    O Just One, you make smooth the path of the righteous.
⁸In the path of your judgments,
    O Lord, we wait for you;
your name and your renown
    are the soul’s desire.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 26:4 Heb in Yah, the Lord

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