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Isaiah 26

  1. 1In 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.
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  2. 2Open all of you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
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  3. 3You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.
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  4. 4Trust all of you in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
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  5. 5For 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.
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  6. 6The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
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  7. 7The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just.
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  8. 8Yea, 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.
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  9. 9With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, 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.
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  10. 10Let favour 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.
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  11. 11LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of yours enemies shall devour them.
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  12. 12LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our works in us.
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  13. 13O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name.
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  14. 14They 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.
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  15. 15You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
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  16. 16LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was upon them.
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  17. 17Like 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.
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  18. 18We 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.
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  19. 19Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, all of you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
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  20. 20Come, 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 pass over.
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  21. 21For, 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.
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