Isaiah 26

Judah’s Song of Victory

1 # Isa 4.2; 12.1; 14.31; 60.18 On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

We have a strong city;

he sets up walls and bulwarks as a safeguard.

2 # Isa 60.11, 18; 61.3; 62.1, 2 Open the gates,

so that the righteous nation that maintains faithfulness

may enter in.

3Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace,

in peace because they trust in you.

4 # Isa 12.2; 17.10 Trust in the Lord forever,

for in the Lord God#26.4 Heb in Yah, the Lord

you have an everlasting rock.

5 # Job 40.11–13; Isa 25.12 For he has brought low

the inhabitants of the height;

the lofty city he lays low.

He lays it low to the ground,

casts it to the dust.

6 # Isa 3.14, 15; 28.3 The foot tramples it,

the feet of the poor,

the steps of the needy.

7 # Isa 42.16; 57.2 The way of the righteous is level;

straight is the path of the righteous that you clear.

8 # v 13 ; Ex 3.15; Isa 51.4; 56.1In the path of your judgments,

O Lord, we have placed hope;

your name and your renown

are the soul’s desire.

9 # Ps 63.6; Isa 55.6; Hos 5.15 My soul yearns for you in the night;

my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.

For when your judgments are in the earth,

the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

10 # Isa 22.12, 13; Hos 11.7; Jn 5.37, 38; Rom 2.4 If favor is shown to the wicked,

they do not learn righteousness;

they corrupt what is upright on the earth

and do not see the majesty of the Lord.

11 # Isa 5.12; 9.7; 10.17; 66.15, 24 O Lord, your hand is lifted up,

but they do not see it.

Let them see your zeal for your people and be ashamed.

Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.

12 # v 3 ; Isa 64.8O Lord, may you ordain peace for us,

for indeed, all that we have done, you have done for us.

13 # Isa 2.8; 10.11; 63.7 O Lord our God,

other lords besides you have ruled over us,

but we acknowledge your name alone.

14 # Isa 8.19; 10.3; Hab 2.19 The dead do not live;

shades do not rise

because you have punished and destroyed them

and wiped out all memory of them.

15 # Isa 9.3; 33.17 But you have increased the nation, O Lord;

you have increased the nation; you are glorified;

you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

16 # Hos 5.15 O Lord, in distress they sought you;

they poured out a prayer#26.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

when your chastening was on them.

17 # Isa 13.8; Jn 16.21 Like a woman with child

about to give birth

writhes and cries out in her pain,

so were we because of you, O Lord;

18 # Ps 17.14; Isa 33.11 we were with child; we writhed,

but we gave birth only to wind.

We have won no victories on earth,

and no one is born to inhabit the world.

19 # Ezek 37.1–14; Dan 12.2 Your dead shall live; their corpses#26.19 Cn Compare Syr Tg: Heb my corpse shall rise.

Those who dwell in the dust will awake and shout for joy!#26.19 Q ms Compare Gk Syr: MT dust, awake and shout for joy!

For your dew is a radiant dew,

and the earth will give birth to those long dead.#26.19 Heb to the shades

20 # Ex 12.22, 23; Ps 30.5; Isa 54.7, 8; 2 Cor 4.17 Come, my people, enter your chambers,

and shut your doors behind you;

hide yourselves for a little while

until the wrath is past.

21 # Job 16.18; Isa 13.11; Mic 1.3; Jude 14 For the Lord comes out from his place

to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;

the earth will disclose the blood shed on it

and will no longer cover its slain.

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Isaiah 26

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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