Isaiah 26
26
A Song of Praise to the Lord
1In that day, everyone in the land of Judah will sing this song:
Our city is strong!
We are surrounded by the walls of God’s salvation.
2Open the gates to all who are righteous;
allow the faithful to enter.
3You will keep in perfect peace
all who trust in you,
all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
4Trust in the Lord always,
for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.
5He humbles the proud
and brings down the arrogant city.
He brings it down to the dust.
6The poor and oppressed trample it underfoot,
and the needy walk all over it.
7But for those who are righteous,
the way is not steep and rough.
You are a God who does what is right,
and you smooth out the path ahead of them.
8 Lord, we show our trust in you by obeying your laws;
our heart’s desire is to glorify your name.
9In the night I search for you;
in the morning#26:9 Hebrew within me. I earnestly seek you.
For only when you come to judge the earth
will people learn what is right.
10Your kindness to the wicked
does not make them do good.
Although others do right, the wicked keep doing wrong
and take no notice of the Lord’s majesty.
11O Lord, they pay no attention to your upraised fist.
Show them your eagerness to defend your people.
Then they will be ashamed.
Let your fire consume your enemies.
12 Lord, you will grant us peace;
all we have accomplished is really from you.
13O Lord our God, others have ruled us,
but you alone are the one we worship.
14Those we served before are dead and gone.
Their departed spirits will never return!
You attacked them and destroyed them,
and they are long forgotten.
15O Lord, you have made our nation great;
yes, you have made us great.
You have extended our borders,
and we give you the glory!
16 Lord, in distress we searched for you.
We prayed beneath the burden of your discipline.
17Just as a pregnant woman
writhes and cries out in pain as she gives birth,
so were we in your presence, Lord.
18We, too, writhe in agony,
but nothing comes of our suffering.
We have not given salvation to the earth,
nor brought life into the world.
19But those who die in the Lord will live;
their bodies will rise again!
Those who sleep in the earth
will rise up and sing for joy!
For your life-giving light will fall like dew
on your people in the place of the dead!
Restoration for Israel
20Go home, my people,
and lock your doors!
Hide yourselves for a little while
until the Lord’s anger has passed.
21Look! The Lord is coming from heaven
to punish the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will no longer hide those who have been killed.
They will be brought out for all to see.
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Isaiah 26
26
Judah’s Song of Praise
1On that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
“We have a strong city;#Literally “a city of strength for us”
he sets up victory like walls and ramparts!#Hebrew “rampart”
2Open the gates so that#Or “and” the righteous nation who keeps faithfulness may enter!
3You will protect a firm inclination in peace,
in peace because he trusts in you.
4Trust in Yahweh forever,
for in Yah, Yahweh you have an everlasting rock.
5For he has thrown down the inhabitants of the height,
he lays low the lofty city.
He lays it low to the ground;
he throws her to the dust.
6The foot tramples it,
the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.”
Yahweh’s People Vindicated
7The way of the righteous is a straight path;
you clear the level path of the righteous.#Literally “the level path of the righteous you make level”; the meaning of this phrase is uncertain
8Surely we wait for you in the path of your judgments, Yahweh,
for your name and renown are the desire of the soul.
9I desire you with all my soul in the night;
also I seek you with my spirit within me,
for when your judgments are upon#Literally “to” the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10Though the wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness;
he acts unjustly in the land of uprightness,
and he does not see the majesty of Yahweh.
11Yahweh, though your hand reaches high, they do not see it.
Let them see, and let them be ashamed of the zeal of people.
Indeed, let the fire of your enemies consume them.
12Yahweh, you will establish peace for us,
for you have done even all of our works for us.
13Yahweh, our God, lords besides you ruled over us,
but we praise your name alone.#Literally “alone in you we praise name you”
14The dead do not live;
dead spirits do not rise
because you have punished and destroyed them,
and you have destroyed all memory of them.
15You have added to the nation, Yahweh.
You have added to the nation; you are honored.
You have extended all the ends of the land.
16Yahweh, in distress they have visited you;
they poured out an incantation;#Literally “whispering”
your discipline was on them.
17Like a pregnant woman on the point of giving birth, she writhes;
she cries in her labor pains.
So we were because of your presence, Yahweh.
18We became pregnant, we writhed;
we gave birth to wind.
We cannot bring about deliverance on the earth,
and no inhabitants of the world are born.
19Your dead shall live; their corpses#Literally “my corpse;” some manuscripts propose an emendation to the suffix to change it to third person masculine plural (“their corpses”), which makes better sense shall rise.
Wake up and sing for joy, dwellers of the dust,
for your dew is celestial dew,#Literally “dew of light”
and the earth will give birth to dead spirits.#Or “you make the land of Rephaim fall”
20Go, my people, enter into your chambers
and shut your doors#The reading tradition (Qere) is singular behind you;
hide for a very little#Literally “a little a little” while,
until the wrath has passed over.
21For look! Yahweh is about to come out from his place
to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants#Hebrew “inhabitant” of the earth against him,
and the earth will disclose her blood
and will no longer cover her slain.
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