Isaiah 26:7–15

Yahweh’s People Vindicated

⁷The way of the righteous is a straight path;

you clear the level path of the righteous.^d

⁸Surely we wait for you in the path of your judgments, Yahweh,

for your name and renown are the desire of the soul.

⁹I desire you with all my soul in the night;

also I seek you with my spirit within me,

for when your judgments are upon^e the earth,

the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

¹⁰Though the wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness;

he acts unjustly in the land of uprightness,

and he does not see the majesty of Yahweh.

¹¹Yahweh, though your hand reaches high, they do not see it.

Let them see, and let them be ashamed of the zeal of people.

Indeed, let the fire of your enemies consume them.

¹²Yahweh, you will establish peace for us,

for you have done even all of our works for us.

¹³Yahweh, our God, lords besides you ruled over us,

but we praise your name alone.^f

¹⁴The dead do not live;

dead spirits do not rise

because you have punished and destroyed them,

and you have destroyed all memory of them.

¹⁵You have added to the nation, Yahweh.

You have added to the nation; you are honored.

You have extended all the ends of the land.