Isaiah 26

1 In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah. The city of our strength; the saviour shall be set therein, the wall and the forewall, either a stronghold before the wall.⋮

2 Open ye the gates, and the just or rightwise folk shall enter, keeping truth.⋮

3 The eld or old error is gone away; thou shalt keep peace, peace, for thou, Lord, we hoped in thee.⋮

4 Ye have hoped in the Lord, in everlasting worlds, in the Lord God, strong without end.⋮

5 For he shall bow down them that dwell on high, and he shall make low an high city; he shall make it low till to the earth; he shall draw it down till to the dust.⋮

6 The foot of a poor man shall defoul it, and the steps of needy men shall defoul it.⋮

7 The way of a just man is rightful, the path of a just man is rightful to go. The way of the rightwise is even, even the path of the rightwise to go.⋮

8 And in the way of thy dooms, Lord, we suffered thee; thy name, and thy memorial is in desire of soul.⋮

9 My soul shall desire thee in the night, but also with my spirit in mine entrails; from the morrowtide I shall wake to thee. When thou shalt make thy dooms in the earth, all dwellers of the world shall learn rightfulness or rightwiseness.⋮

10 Do we mercy to the wicked man, and he shall not learn to do rightwise-ness; in the land of saints he did wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.⋮

11 Lord, thine hand be enhanced, that they see not; peoples having envy see, and be shamed, and fire devour thine enemies.⋮

12 Lord, thou shalt give peace to us, for thou hast wrought all our works in us.⋮

13 Our Lord God, lords had us in possession, without thee; only in thee have we mind of thy name.⋮

14 They that die, live not, and giants, rise not again. Therefore thou hast visited, and hast all-broken them, and thou hast lost all the mind of them;⋮

15 and Lord, thou hast forgiven to a folk, thou hast forgiven to a folk. Whether thou art glorified? thou hast made far from thee all the ends of the earth.⋮

16 Lord, in anguish they sought thee; in the tribulation of grutching, thy doctrine to them.⋮

17 As she that conceived, when she nigheth sorrowful to the child bearing, crieth in her sorrows, so we be made, Lord, of thy face.⋮

18 We have conceived, and we have as travailed of child, and we have childed the spirit of health; we did not rightfulness or rightwiseness in earth. Therefore the dwellers of the earth fell not down;⋮

19 thy dead men shall live, and my slain men shall rise again. Ye that dwell in dust, awake, and praise; for why the dew of light is thy dew, and thou shalt draw down the land of giants into falling.⋮

20 Go thou, my people, enter into thy beds, close thy doors on thee, be thou hid a little at a moment, till indignation pass.⋮

21 For lo! the Lord shall go out of his place, to visit the wickedness of the dwellers of the earth against him; and the earth shall show his blood, and shall no more cover his slain men.⋮