Isaías 26

You Keep Him in Perfect Peace

1 In that day *[ch. 27:2] this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

"We have a strong city;

he sets up *[ch. 60:18]salvation

as walls and bulwarks.

2 *Ps. 118:19,20Open the gates,

that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.

3 *[ch. 30:15]You keep him in perfect peace

whose mind is stayed on you,

because he trusts in you.

4 Trust in the Lord forever,

for the LordGod is an everlasting rock.

5 *ch. 25:12For he has humbled

the inhabitants of the height,

the lofty city.

He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,

casts it to the dust.

6 The foot tramples it,

the feet of *[ch. 25:4]the poor,

the steps of *[ch. 25:4]the needy."

7 The path of the righteous is level;

*1 Sam. 2:9;Ps. 37:23you make level the way of the righteous.

8 In the path of your judgments,

O Lord, we wait for you;

*Ex. 3:15your name and *Ex. 3:15remembrance

are the desire of our soul.

9 My soul yearns for you in the night;

my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.

*ver. 16;[2 Chr. 33:12]For when your judgments are in the earth,

the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

10 *See Ps. 73:3-11If favor is shown to the wicked,

he does not learn righteousness;

in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly

and does not see the majesty of the Lord.

11 O Lord, *[Mic. 5:9] your hand is lifted up,

but *[ch. 5:12] they do not see it.

Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.

Let *Ps. 21:9;[ch. 33:14]the fire for your adversaries consume them.

12 O Lord, you will ordain *ch. 9:7;Mic. 5:5peace for us,

for you have indeed done for us all our works.

13 O Lord our God,

*[ch. 2:8;2 Kgs. 16:3,4] other lords besides you have ruled over us,

*[ch. 2:20;Ps. 20:7]; See 2 Kgs. 18:4-6but your name alone we bring to remembrance.

14 They are dead, they will not live;

they are shades, they will not arise;

to that end you have visited them with destruction

and wiped out all remembrance of them.

15 *ch. 9:3But you have increased the nation, O Lord,

you have increased the nation; you are glorified;

*[ch. 54:2,3]you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

16 O Lord, *Hos. 5:15;See ch. 37:1-4in distress they sought you;

they poured out a whispered prayer

when your discipline was upon them.

17 *See ch. 13:8Like a pregnant woman

who writhes and cries out in her pangs

when she is near to giving birth,

so were we because of you, O Lord;

18 *[See ver. 17above]we were pregnant, we writhed,

but we have given birth to wind.

We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,

and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

19 *[Ezek. 37:12;Dan. 12:2;Hos. 13:14] Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.

You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!

For *[Hos. 14:5]your dew is a dew of light,

and the earth will give birth to the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,

and shut your doors behind you;

hide yourselves *ch. 10:25for a little while

until the fury has passed by.

21 *Mic. 1:3For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place

to punish the inhabitants of *[ch. 24:5]the earth for their iniquity,

and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,

and will no more cover its slain.