Isaiah 26

1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

In that day this song is sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city, He makes salvation [for] walls and bulwark.

2 Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.

Open the gates, That a righteous nation may enter, Preserving steadfastness.

3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.

You keep [him] in peace [whose] imagination [is] stayed—peace! For he is confident in You.

4 Trust you in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

Trust in YHWH forever, For in YAH—YHWH [is] a rock of ages,

5 For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.

For He bowed down the dwellers on high, A city set on high He makes low, He makes it low to the earth, He causes it to come to the dust,

6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

A foot treads it down, Feet of the poor—steps of the weak.

7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just.

The path for the righteous [is] uprightness, O upright One, You ponder the path of the righteous.

8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance of you.

Also, [in] the path of Your judgments, O YHWH, we have waited [for] You, To Your Name and to Your remembrance [Is] the desire of the soul.

9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

I desired You in the night [with] my soul, Also, I seek You earnestly [with] my spirit within me, For when Your judgments [are] on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.

10 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

The wicked finds favor, He has not learned righteousness, He deals perversely in a land of straightforwardness, And does not see the excellence of YHWH.

11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yes, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.

O YHWH, Your hand [is] high—they do not see, They see the zeal of the people, and are ashamed, Also, the fire consumes Your adversaries.

12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have worked all our works in us.

O YHWH, You appoint peace to us, For You have also worked all our works for us.

13 O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name.

O our God YHWH, lords have ruled us besides You, Only, by You we make mention of Your Name.

14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

Dead—they do not live, Rephaim, they do not rise, Therefore You have inspected and destroy them, Indeed, you destroy all their memory.

15 You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far to all the ends of the earth.

You have added to the nation, O YHWH, You have added to the nation, You have been honored, You have put all the ends of the earth far off.

16 LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

O YHWH, in distress they missed You, They have poured out a whisper, Your discipline [is] on them.

17 Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD.

When a pregnant woman comes near to the birth, She is pained—she cries in her pangs, So we have been from Your face, O YHWH.

18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth, as it were, wind, We do not work salvation in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.

19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Your dead live—My dead body, they rise. Awake and sing, you dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs [is] your dew, And you cause the land of Rephaim to fall.

20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be over.

Come, My people, enter into your inner chambers, And shut your doors behind you, Hide yourself shortly [for] a moment until the indignation passes over.

21 For, behold, the LORD comes 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.

For behold, YHWH is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth on him, And the earth has revealed her blood, Nor does she cover her slain anymore!”