The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Isaiah 26
1 In that day, this song will be sung in the
land of Judah: “We have a strong city.
God appoints salvation for walls and
bulwarks.
2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation
may enter: the one which keeps faith.
3 You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast
in perfect peace, 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 who are upright make the path of
the righteous level.
8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you.
Your name and your renown are the
desire of our soul.
9 With my soul I have desired you in the
night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will
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 he will not learn righteousness.
In the land of uprightness he will deal
wrongfully,and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.
11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they
don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people and be disappointed.
Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us,
for you have also done all our work for
us.
13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you
have had dominion over us,
but we will only acknowledge your name.
14 The dead shall not live.
The departed spirits shall not rise.
Therefore you have visited and destroyed
them, and caused all memory ofthem 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 they have visited
you. They poured out a prayer when your
chastening was on them.
17 Just 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 gave birth, it seems, only to wind.
We have not worked any deliverance
in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the
world fallen.
19 Your dead shall live.
Their dead bodies shall arise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;
for your dew is like the dew of herbs,
and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms,
and shut your doors behind you.
Hide yourself for a little moment,
until the indignation is past.
21 For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his
place to punish the inhabitants of
the earth for their iniquity.
The earth also will disclose her blood,
and will no longer cover her slain.