Isaiah 26

A Song of Praise

1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.
2 Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
3 You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
4 Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD himself, is the Rock eternal.
5 He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.
6 Feet trample it down— the feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the poor.
7 The path of the righteous is level; you, the Upright One, make the way of the righteous smooth.
8 Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws,[a]we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.
9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
10 But when grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and do not regard the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
12 LORD, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.
13 LORD our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor.
14 They are now dead, they live no more; their spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.
15 You have enlarged the nation, LORD; you have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for yourself; you have extended all the borders of the land.
16 LORD, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.[b]
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, LORD.
18 We were with child, we writhed in labor, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth, and the people of the world have not come to life.
19 But your dead will live, LORD; their bodies will rise— let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy— your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.
20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.
21 See, the LORD is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; the earth will conceal its slain no longer.

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Cross References 65

  • 1. S Isaiah 10:20
  • 2. Isaiah 30:29
  • 3. S Isaiah 14:32
  • 4. Isaiah 32:18; Isaiah 60:18; Zechariah 2:5; Zechariah 9:8
  • 5. S Psalms 48:13
  • 6. S Psalms 24:7
  • 7. Isaiah 4:3-4">Ps 2Isaiah 4:3-4; Psalms 85:13; S Isaiah 1:26; S Isaiah 4:3; Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 50:8; Isaiah 53:11; Isaiah 54:14; Isaiah 58:8; Isaiah 62:2
  • 8. S Job 22:21; S Isaiah 9:6,7; Philippians 4:7
  • 9. S 1 Chronicles 5:20; S Psalms 22:5; S Psalms 28:7; S Isaiah 12:2
  • 10. S Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 50:10
  • 11. S Psalms 62:8
  • 12. S Genesis 49:24
  • 13. S Isaiah 25:12; Ezekiel 26:11
  • 14. S Isaiah 25:2
  • 15. S Isaiah 5:5
  • 16. Isaiah 49:26
  • 17. S Isaiah 3:15; S Isaiah 14:30
  • 18. S Psalms 26:12
  • 19. S Psalms 25:8
  • 20. S Exodus 14:19; Isaiah 40:4; Isaiah 42:16
  • 21. S Deuteronomy 18:18; Psalms 1:2; Isaiah 56:1; Isaiah 64:5
  • 22. S Psalms 37:9; S Psalms 130:5
  • 23. S Psalms 145:2; S Isaiah 12:4
  • 24. S Psalms 119:55
  • 25. Psalms 42:1-3; Psalms 63:1; Psalms 78:34; Isaiah 55:6
  • 26. S 1 Chronicles 16:14
  • 27. Matthew 6:33
  • 28. Matthew 5:45
  • 29. Isaiah 32:6; Isaiah 59:7,13
  • 30. S 1 Samuel 12:24; Isaiah 22:12-13; Jeremiah 2:19; Hosea 11:7; John 5:37-38; Romans 2:4
  • 31. S Psalms 10:12
  • 32. Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah 44:9,18
  • 33. S Isaiah 9:7; Joel 2:18; Zechariah 1:14
  • 34. Micah 7:16
  • 35. S Isaiah 1:31; Hebrews 10:27
  • 36. S Psalms 119:165; S Isaiah 9:6
  • 37. S Psalms 68:28
  • 38. Isaiah 2:8; Isaiah 10:5,11
  • 39. S Isaiah 12:4
  • 40. Isaiah 42:8; Isaiah 63:7
  • 41. S Deuteronomy 4:28
  • 42. S Job 26:5
  • 43. S Psalms 9:5; S Isaiah 10:3
  • 44. S Psalms 9:6
  • 45. S Job 12:23; S Isaiah 14:2
  • 46. Isaiah 33:17
  • 47. S Judges 6:2; S Isaiah 5:30; Hosea 5:15
  • 48. S Psalms 39:11
  • 49. Isaiah 29:4
  • 50. S Isaiah 21:3; S John 16:21; Revelation 12:2
  • 51. Isaiah 33:11; Isaiah 59:4
  • 52. S Genesis 49:10; Psalms 17:14
  • 53. Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 49:6; Isaiah 51:4; Jeremiah 12:16
  • 54. S Isaiah 25:8; Ephesians 5:14
  • 55. Psalms 22:29
  • 56. S Genesis 27:28; S Isaiah 18:4
  • 57. Isaiah 66:24; Ezekiel 37:1-14; Daniel 12:2
  • 58. Exodus 12:23
  • 59. Psalms 91:1,4
  • 60. S Isaiah 10:25; S Isaiah 30:27
  • 61. S Job 14:13; Psalms 30:5; Isaiah 54:7-8
  • 62. Isaiah 29:6; Jude 1:14
  • 63. S Isaiah 18:4; Micah 1:3
  • 64. S Isaiah 13:9,11; Isaiah 30:12-14
  • 65. S Job 16:18; Luke 11:50-51

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or "judgments"
  • [b]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

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