Isaiah 26:7–15

⁷The way of the righteous is level;

thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous.

⁸In the path of thy judgments,

O Lord, we wait for thee;

thy memorial name

is the desire of our soul.

⁹My soul yearns for thee in the night,

my spirit within me earnestly seeks thee.

For when thy judgments are in the earth,

the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

¹⁰If favor is shown to the wicked,

he does not learn righteousness;

in the land of uprightness he deals perversely

and does not see the majesty of the Lord.

¹¹O Lord, thy hand is lifted up,

but they see it not.

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

Let the fire for thy adversaries consume them.

¹²O Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us,

thou hast wrought for us all our works.

¹³O Lord our God,

other lords besides thee have ruled over us,

but thy name alone we acknowledge.

¹⁴They are dead, they will not live;

they are shades, they will not arise;

to that end thou hast visited them with destruction

and wiped out all remembrance of them.

¹⁵But thou hast increased the nation, O Lord,

thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified;

thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.