Isaiah 26:1–27:13

A Song of Salvation

26 In athat day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“We have a strong city;

bGod will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.

2 cOpen the gates,

That the righteous nation which 1keeps the truth may enter in.

3 You will keep him in perfect dpeace,

Whose mind is stayed on You,

Because he trusts in You.

4 Trust in the Lord forever,

eFor in Yah, the Lord, is 2everlasting strength.

5 For He brings 3down those who dwell on high,

fThe lofty city;

He lays it low,

He lays it low to the ground,

He brings it down to the dust.

6 The foot shall 4tread it down—

The feet of the poor

And the steps of the needy.”

7 The way of the just is uprightness;

gO Most Upright,

You 5weigh the path of the just.

8 Yes, hin the way of Your judgments,

O Lord, we have iwaited for You;

The desire of our soul is for Your name

And for the remembrance of You.

9 jWith my soul I have desired You in the night,

Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early;

For when Your judgments are in the earth,

The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

10 kLet grace be shown to the wicked,

Yet he will not learn righteousness;

In lthe land of uprightness he will deal unjustly,

And will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

11 Lord, when Your hand is lifted up, mthey will not see.

But they will see and be ashamed

For 6their envy of people;

Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.

12 Lord, You will establish peace for us,

For You have also done all our works 7in us.

13 O Lord our God, nmasters besides You

Have had dominion over us;

But by You only we make mention of Your name.

14 They are dead, they will not live;

They are deceased, they will not rise.

Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,

And made all their memory to operish.

15 You have increased the nation, O Lord,

You have pincreased the nation;

You are glorified;

You have expanded all the 8borders of the land.

16 Lord, qin trouble they have visited You,

They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

17 As ra woman with child

Is in pain and cries out in her 9pangs,

When she draws near the time of her delivery,

So have we been in Your sight, O Lord.

18 We have been with child, we have been in pain;

We have, as it were, 1brought forth wind;

We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,

Nor have sthe inhabitants of the world fallen.

19 tYour dead shall live;

Together with 2my dead body they shall arise.

uAwake and sing, you who dwell in dust;

For your dew is like the dew of herbs,

And the earth shall cast out the dead.

Take Refuge from the Coming Judgment

20 Come, my people, venter your chambers,

And shut your doors behind you;

Hide yourself, as it were, wfor a little moment,

Until the indignation is past.

21 For behold, the Lord xcomes out of His place

To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;

The earth will also disclose her 3blood,

And will no more cover her slain.

27 In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong,

Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,

aLeviathan that twisted serpent;

And He will slay bthe reptile that is in the sea.

The Restoration of Israel

2 In that day csing to her,

d“A vineyard of 1red wine!

3 eI, the Lord, keep it,

I water it every moment;

Lest any hurt it,

I keep it night and day.

4 Fury is not in Me.

Who would set fbriers and thorns

Against Me in battle?

I would go through them,

I would burn them together.

5 Or let him take hold gof My strength,

That he may hmake peace with Me;

And he shall make peace with Me.”

6 Those who come He shall cause ito take root in Jacob;

Israel shall blossom and bud,

And fill the face of the world with fruit.

7 jHas He struck 2Israel as He struck those who struck him?

Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?

8 kIn measure, by sending it away,

You contended with it.

lHe removes it by His rough wind

In the day of the east wind.

9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;

And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:

When he makes all the stones of the altar

Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,

3Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.

10 Yet the fortified city will be mdesolate,

The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;

There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down

And consume its branches.

11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;

The women come and set them on fire.

For nit is a people of no understanding;

Therefore He who made them will onot have mercy on them,

And pHe who formed them will show them no favor.

12 And it shall come to pass in that day

That the Lord will thresh,

From the channel of 4the River to the Brook of Egypt;

And you will be qgathered one by one,

O you children of Israel.

13 rSo it shall be in that day:

sThe great trumpet will be blown;

They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,

And they who are outcasts in the land of tEgypt,

And shall uworship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.