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          DASV: Isaiah 26    

1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
     We have a strong city;
     God has set up salvation like walls and ramparts.
2 Open the gates,
     so that the righteous nation
           that keeps faith may enter.
3 You will keep in perfect peace,
     those whose minds are steadfast,
           because they trust in you.
4 Trust in the LORD forever;
     for in the LORD, yes the LORD,
           you have 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 throws it down into the dust.
6 Feet will trample it down;
     even the feet of the poor,
           the steps of the needy.

7 The way of the righteous is straight,
     you level the path of the righteous.
8 Yes, in the path of your judgments, O LORD,
     we wait for you;
           the desire of our soul is for your name
     for your memory.
9 My soul longs for you in the night;
          yes, my spirit within me desires you.
     For when your judgments are seen in the earth,
          the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10 When favor is shown to the wicked,
     they will not learn righteousness;
      in the land of uprightness they will act unjustly,
     and will not see the majesty of the LORD.
11 O LORD, your hand is lifted up,
          yet they do not see it.
      Let them see your zeal for your people,
          and be put to shame;
           yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

12 O LORD, you will establish peace for us;
     for all our works you have actually done for us.
13 O LORD our God,
     other lords besides you have ruled over us,
      but your name alone we will keep in remembrance.
14 The dead do not come back to life;
     the spirits of the dead do not rise;
      because you have punished and destroyed them,
     and erased all memory of them.
15 You have increased the nation, O LORD;
          you have increased the nation.
      You are glorified;
          you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

16 O LORD, in trouble they have searched for you;
     they poured out a prayer when your discipline was on them.
17 Like a woman with child,
     who nears the time of her delivery,
           with writhing and cries in her labor pains,
      so we have been before you, O LORD.
18 We were pregnant,
     we were in pain,
           but we gave birth only to the wind.
      We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth;
          nor have the inhabitants of the world been born.

19 Your dead will live;
          your dead bodies will rise.
      Wake up and sing, you who dwell in the dust.
     For your dew is like the morning dew,
           and the earth will give birth to those who were dead.

20 Go, my people, enter into your rooms.
     Shut your doors behind you.
      Hide yourself for a little while,
          until his anger is passed.
21 For look, the LORD comes out of his dwelling place
           to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their sin.
      The earth also will reveal the bloodshed on her,
          and will no longer cover her slain.

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