1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: |
2 Open the gates
that the righteous nation may enter,
the nation that keeps faith. |
3 You will keep in perfect peace
him whose mind is steadfast,
because he trusts in you. |
4 Trust in the LORD forever,
for the LORD , the LORD , 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;
O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth. |
8 Yes, LORD , walking in the way of your laws,1 26:8 Or judgments
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 Though grace is shown to the wicked,
they do not learn righteousness;
even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil
and regard not the majesty of the LORD . |
11 O 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 O 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;
those departed 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, O 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.2 26:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain. |
17 As a woman with child and about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pain,
so were we in your presence, O LORD . |
18 We were with child, we writhed in pain,
but we gave birth to wind.
We have not brought salvation to the earth;
we have not given birth to people of the world. |
19 But your dead will live;
their bodies will rise.
You 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 upon her;
she will conceal her slain no longer. |
