# Isaiah 26 [[Isaiah 25|←]] • [[Isaiah 27|→]] --- ### 1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will appoint walls and bulwarks. ### 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. ### 3 Thou wilt keep in perfect peace, mind stayed because he trusteth in thee. ### 4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah everlasting strength: ### 5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, to the ground; he bringeth it to the dust. ### 6 The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy. ### 7 The way of the just uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. ### 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of soul to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. ### 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. ### 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. ### 11 Lord, thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: they shall see, and be ashamed for envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. ### 12 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. ### 13 O Lord our God, lords beside thee have had dominion over us: by thee only will we make mention of thy name. ### 14 dead, they shall not live; deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. ### 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed far all the ends of the earth. ### 16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer thy chastening upon them. ### 17 Like as a woman with child, draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord. ### 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. ### 19 Thy dead shall live, my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. ### 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. ### 21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.