Isaiah 26

Revised Geneva Translation

26 On that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city, God shall set salvation for walls and bulwarks.

² “Open the gates so that the righteous nation, which keeps the truth, may enter in.

³ “By an assured purpose will You preserve perfect peace, because they trusted in You.

⁴ “Trust in the LORD forever, For in the LORD God is strength forevermore.

⁵ “For He will bring down those who dwell on high, The high city He will lay low, He will cast it down to the ground and bring it to dust.

⁶ “The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.

⁷ “The way of the just is righteousness, You will make equal the righteous path of the just.

⁸ “Also, we, O LORD, have waited for You in the way of Your judgments. The desire of our soul is to Your Name and to the remembrance of You.

⁹ “With my soul have I desired You in the night. And with my spirit within me will I seek You in the morning. For seeing Your judgments on the Earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness.

¹⁰ “Let mercy be shown to the wicked, he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness, he will do wickedly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

¹¹ “O LORD, they will not behold Your high Hand. They shall see it and be confounded with the zeal of the people. And the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.

¹² “LORD, to us You will ordain peace. For You also have wrought all our works for us.

¹³ “O LORD our God, lords besides You have ruled us. We will remember You only, Your Name.

¹⁴ “The dead shall not live, nor shall the dead arise, because You have visited and scattered them, and destroyed all their memory.

¹⁵ “You have increased the nation, O LORD. You have increased the nation. You are made glorious, You have enlarged all the territories of the Earth.

¹⁶ “LORD, in trouble have they visited You. They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

¹⁷ “Like a woman with child who draws near to the birth is in sorrow and cries in her pains, so have we been in Your sight, O LORD.

¹⁸ “We have conceived, we have born in pain, as though we should have brought forth wind. There was no help on the Earth, nor did the inhabitants of the world fall.

¹⁹ “Your dead men shall live, with my body shall they rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust. For your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the Earth shall cast out the dead.

²⁰ “Come, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors after you. Hide yourself for a very little while, until the indignation passes over.

²¹ “For lo, the LORD comes out of His place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the Earth upon them. And the Earth shall disclose her blood, and shall hide her slain no more.”