Isaiah 26:16–27:6

¹⁶O Jehovah, in distress they missed Thee, They have poured out a whisper, Thy chastisement is on them. ¹⁷When a pregnant woman cometh near to the birth, She is pained—she crieth in her pangs, So we have been from Thy face, O Jehovah. ¹⁸We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall. ¹⁹‘Thy dead live—My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs is thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.

²⁰Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over. ²¹For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!’

Chapter 27

¹In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword—the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan—a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan—a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that is in the sea. ²In that day, ‘A desirable vineyard,’ respond ye to her, ³I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it! ⁴Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier—a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once. ⁵Or—he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me. ⁶Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world with increase.