Isa. 26
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In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city;
He will set up salvation as walls and a rampart.
Isa. 26
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aOpen the gates
So that the righteous nation may enter,
They who maintain faithfulness.
Isa. 26
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You will keep the steadfast of mind
In perfect
apeace Because he trusts in You.
Isa. 26
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Trust in Jehovah forever and ever,
For in Jah Jehovah
we have an eternal
arock.
Isa. 26
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For He has brought down those who dwell on high,
The lofty city;
He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground;
He casts it into the dust.
Isa. 26
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The foot will trample it, the foot of the poor,
The steps of the weak.
Isa. 26
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The path of the righteous is smoothness;
O You who are upright, You make the path of the righteous level.
Isa. 26
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Indeed in the
1path of Your judgments,
O Jehovah, we have awaited for You.
Your name, that is, Your memorial,
Is the desire of
our soul.
Isa. 26
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My soul desires You in the
anight;
Indeed my spirit within me seeks You at the dawn;
For when Your judgments are in the earth,
The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa. 26
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Though the wicked is shown grace,
He does not learn righteousness;
In the land of straightforwardness he deals unjustly
And does not perceive the majesty of Jehovah.
Isa. 26
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O Jehovah, Your hand is lifted up,
But they do not see it.
They will see
Your zeal for the people and will be put to shame;
Indeed fire will
adevour Your adversaries.
Isa. 26
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O Jehovah, You will ordain
apeace for us,
For You have also performed all our works for us.
Isa. 26
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O Jehovah our God, other
1lords besides You have been master to us,
But through You alone do we
amention Your name.
Isa. 26
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26:14
The dead will not live,
The deceased will not rise;
Therefore You have visited and destroyed them,
And You have caused all memory of them to perish.
Isa. 26
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aYou have
1increased the nation, O Jehovah;
You have increased the nation — You are
bglorified;
You have far
1extended all the edges of the land.
Isa. 26
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O Jehovah, in distress they
1asought You;
They whispered out a prayer,
for Your chastening was upon them.
Isa. 26
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As a
apregnant woman draws near to giving birth,
She writhes
and cries out in her pain;
So we have been before You, O Jehovah.
Isa. 26
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We were pregnant; we writhed; we gave birth, as it were, to wind.
We have not accomplished deliverance for the earth,
Nor have the inhabitants of the world been born.
Isa. 26
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Your dead will
alive; my corpses will
brise.
cAwake and give a ringing shout, you who dwell in dust,
For your dew is like the dew of the dawn,
And the earth will bring forth the deceased.
Isa. 26
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Come, my people, enter your rooms,
And
ashut your doors behind you;
Hide for a short moment
Until the indignation has passed;
Isa. 26
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For Jehovah is now
acoming forth from His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
And the earth will reveal her bloodshed
And will no longer conceal her slain.
