Isaiah 26:7–15

⁷The path of the righteous is level;

^kyou make level the way of the righteous.

⁸In the path of your judgments,

O Lord, we wait for you;

^lyour name and ^lremembrance

are the desire of our soul.

⁹My soul yearns for you in the night;

my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.

^mFor when your judgments are in the earth,

the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

¹⁰ⁿIf 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.

¹¹O Lord, ^oyour hand is lifted up,

but ^pthey do not see it.

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

Let ^qthe fire for your adversaries consume them.

¹²O Lord, you will ordain ^rpeace for us,

for you have indeed done for us all our works.

¹³O Lord our God,

^sother lords besides you have ruled over us,

^tbut your name alone we bring to remembrance.

¹⁴They 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.

^15uBut you have increased the nation, O Lord,

you have increased the nation; you are glorified;

^vyou have enlarged all the borders of the land.