AB - Isaiah - 26

26:1  In that day they shall sing this song in the land of Judah; Behold a strong city; and He shall make salvation its wall and bulwark.

26:2  Open the gates, let the nation enter that keeps righteousness, and keeps truth,

26:3  supporting truth, and keeping peace; for on You, O Lord,

26:4  they have trusted with confidence forever, the great, eternal God;

26:5  who has humbled and brought down them that dwell on high; You shall cast down strong cities, and bring them to the ground.

26:6  And the feet of the meek and lowly shall trample them.

26:7  The way of the godly is made straight; the way of the godly is also prepared.

26:8  For the way of the Lord is judgment; we have hoped in Your name, and on the remembrance of You,

26:9  which our soul longs for; my spirit seeks You very early in the morning, O God, for Your commandments are a light on the earth; learn righteousness, you that dwell upon the earth.

26:10  For the ungodly one is put down; no one who will not learn righteousness on the earth, shall be able to do the truth; let the ungodly be taken away, that he may not see the glory of the Lord.

26:11  O Lord, Your arm is exalted, yet they knew it not; but when they know they shall be ashamed; jealously shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.

26:12  O Lord our God, give us peace, for You have rendered to us all things.

26:13  O Lord our God, take possession of us; O Lord, we know not any other beside You; we name Your name.

26:14  But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise them up; therefore You have brought wrath upon them, and slain them, and have taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;

26:15  bring more evils on the glorious ones of the earth.

26:16  Lord, in affliction I remembered You; Your chastening was to us with small affliction.

26:17  And as a woman in labor draws near to be delivered, and cries out in her pain; so have we been to Your beloved.

26:18  We have conceived, O Lord, because of Your fear, and have been in pain, and have brought forth the breath of Your salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth; we shall not fall, but all that dwell upon the land shall fall.

26:19  The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice; for the dew from You is healing to them; but the land of the ungodly shall perish.

26:20  Go, my people, enter into your closets, shut your door, hide yourself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord has passed away.

26:21  For behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from His holy place on those that dwell upon the earth; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.