Parallel Bible results for "isaiah 26"

Isaiah 26

Good News Translation GNT

1 A day is coming when the people will sing this song in the land of Judah: Our city is strong! God himself defends its walls!

2 Open the city gates and let the faithful nation enter, the nation whose people do what is right.

3 You, Lord, give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm and put their trust in you.

4 Trust in the Lord forever; he will always protect us.

5 He has humbled those who were proud; he destroyed the strong city they lived in, and sent its walls crashing into the dust.

6 Those 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.

8 We follow your will and put our hope in you; you are all that we desire.

9 At night I long for you with all my heart; when you judge the earth and its people, they will all learn what justice is.

10 Even 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 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.

12 You will give us prosperity, Lord; everything that we achieve is the result of what you do.

13 Lord our God, we have been ruled by others, but you alone are our Lord.

14 Now 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 honor.

16 You punished your people, Lord, and in anguish they prayed to you.

17 You, Lord, have made us cry out, as a woman in labor cries out in pain.

18 We were in pain and agony, but we gave birth to nothing. We have won no victory for our land; we have accomplished nothing.

19 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.

20 Go into your houses, my people, and shut the door behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until God's anger is over.

21 The 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.

World English Bible WEB

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

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

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

4 Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

5 For he has brought down those who 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.

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

7 The way of the just is uprightness: you that are upright do direct the path of the just.

8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.

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

10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not see the majesty of Yahweh.

11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see: but they shall see [your] zeal for the people, and be put to shame; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries.

12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us; for you have also worked all our works for us.

13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will 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 memory of them to perish.

15 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

16 Yahweh, in trouble have they visited you; they poured out a prayer [when] your chastening was on them.

17 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.

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.

19 Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

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

21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth 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.