Isaiah 26
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A Song of Salvation
1In #Is. 2:11; 12:1that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
“We have a strong city;
#Is. 60:18God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.
2#Ps. 118:19, 20Open the gates,
That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
3You will keep him in perfect #Is. 57:19; (Phil. 4:6, 7)peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.
4Trust in the Lord forever,
#Is. 12:2; 45:17For in YAH, the Lord, is everlasting strength.
5For He brings down those who dwell on high,
#Is. 25:11, 12The lofty city;
He lays it low,
He lays it low to the ground,
He brings it down to the dust.
6The foot shall tread it down—
The feet of the poor
And the steps of the needy.”
7The way of the just is uprightness;
#Ps. 37:23O Most Upright,
You weigh the path of the just.
8Yes, #Is. 64:5in the way of Your judgments,
O Lord, we have #Is. 25:9; 33:2waited for You;
The desire of our soul is for Your name
And for the remembrance of You.
9#Ps. 63:6; Song 3:1; Is. 50:10; Luke 6:12With my soul I have desired You in the night,
Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early;
For when Your judgments are in the earth,
The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10#Eccl. 8:12; (Rom. 2:4)Let grace be shown to the wicked,
Yet he will not learn righteousness;
In #Ps. 143:10the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly,
And will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
11Lord, when Your hand is lifted up, #Job 34:27; Ps. 28:5; Is. 5:12they will not see.
But they will see and be ashamed
For their envy of people;
Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.
12Lord, You will establish peace for us,
For You have also done all our works in us.
13O Lord our God, #2 Chr. 12:8masters besides You
Have had dominion over us;
But by You only we make mention of Your name.
14They are dead, they will not live;
They are deceased, they will not rise.
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
And made all their memory to #Eccl. 9:5; Is. 14:22perish.
15You have increased the nation, O Lord,
You have #Is. 9:3increased the nation;
You are glorified;
You have expanded all the borders of the land.
16Lord, #Is. 37:3; Hos. 5:15in trouble they have visited You,
They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
17As #Is. 13:8; (John 16:21)a woman with child
Is in pain and cries out in her pangs,
When she draws near the time of her delivery,
So have we been in Your sight, O Lord.
18We have been with child, we have been in pain;
We have, as it were, brought forth wind;
We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,
Nor have #Ps. 17:14the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19#Is. 25:8; (Ezek. 37:1–14)Your dead shall live;
Together with my dead body they shall arise.
#(Dan. 12:2); Hos. 13:14Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust;
For your dew is like the dew of herbs,
And the earth shall cast out the dead.
Take Refuge from the Coming Judgment
20Come, my people, #Ex. 12:22, 23; (Ps. 91:1, 4)enter your chambers,
And shut your doors behind you;
Hide yourself, as it were, #(Ps. 30:5; Is. 54:7, 8; 2 Cor. 4:17)for a little moment,
Until the indignation is past.
21For behold, the Lord #Mic. 1:3; (Jude 14)comes out of His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
The earth will also disclose her blood,
And will no more cover her slain.
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Isaiah 26
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God will Give his People Victory
1A day is coming when the people will sing this song in the land of Judah:
Our city is strong!
God himself defends its walls!
2Open the city gates
and let the faithful nation enter,
the nation whose people do what is right.
3You, LORD, give perfect peace
to those who keep their purpose firm
and put their trust in you.
4Trust in the LORD for ever;
he will always protect us.
5He has humbled those who were proud;
he destroyed the strong city they lived in,
and sent its walls crashing into the dust.
6Those who were oppressed walk over it now
and trample it under their feet.
7 LORD, you make the path smooth for good people;
the road they travel is level.
8We follow your will and put our hope in you;
you are all that we desire.
9At night I long for you with all my heart;
when you judge the earth and its people,
they will all learn what justice is.
10Even though you are kind to the wicked,
they never learn to do what is right.
Even here in a land of righteous people they still do wrong;
they refuse to recognize your greatness.
11 #
Heb 10.27
Your enemies do not know that you will punish them.
LORD, put them to shame and let them suffer;
let them suffer the punishment you have prepared.
Show them how much you love your people.
12You will give us prosperity, LORD;
everything that we achieve
is the result of what you do.#26.12 everything that… do; or you treat us according to what we do.
13 LORD our God, we have been ruled by others,
but you alone are our LORD.
14Now they are dead and will not live again;
their ghosts will not rise,
for you have punished them and destroyed them.
No one remembers them any more.
15 LORD, you have made our nation grow,
enlarging its territory on every side,
and this has brought you honour.
16You punished your people, LORD,
and in anguish they prayed to you.#26.16 Verse 16 in Hebrew is unclear.
17You, LORD, have made us cry out,
as a woman in labour cries out in pain.
18We were in pain and agony,
but we gave birth to nothing.
We have won no victory for our land;
we have accomplished nothing.#26.18 We have won… nothing; Hebrew unclear.
19 #
Dan 12.2
Those of our people who have died will live again!
Their bodies will come back to life.
All those sleeping in their graves
will wake up and sing for joy.
As the sparkling dew refreshes the earth,
so the LORD will revive those who have long been dead.
Judgement and Restoration
20Go into your houses, my people, and shut the door behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until God's anger is over. 21The LORD is coming from his heavenly dwelling place to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The murders that were secretly committed on the earth will be revealed, and the ground will no longer hide those who have been killed.
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