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Isaiah 26

¹In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah.
We have a strong city,
Salvation set in walls and outworks!
²Open the gates!
So a righteous nation may enter,
One that keeps justice.
³The mind that depends,
You will keep totally peaceful,
Because he trusts in you.
⁴Trust in YHWH forever,
For in YH YHWH is an eternal rock.
⁵For he has humbled the inhabitants of a lofty place,
An inaccessible city.
He will overthrow it,
He will cast it down to the ground.
He will make it reach the dust.
⁶Feet will trample it,
The feet of the humble,
The steps of the poor.
⁷The way of the righteous is level.
You prepare for them a straight path.
⁸Indeed in the path of your justice
We wait for you YHWH,
Your name and for your reputation,
is our deepest desire.
⁹My soul longs for you in the night,
My spirit within me keeps watch for you,
Because just as your judgments hold sway in the land,
So do the inhabitants of the earth learn righteousness.
¹⁰When the wicked receive grace,
The don't learn righteousness.
In a land of upright people he acts unjustly,
And has no fear of YHWH's majesty.
¹¹YHWH, though your had is lifted up,
They don't see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people,
And be ashamed.
Let the fire of your anger consume them.
¹²YHWH will accomplish deliverance for us,
Indeed all our accomplished are things you have done!
¹³YHWH our God,
Other lords besides you have ruled us,
Still we praise your name.
¹⁴Being dead, they cannot live;
Being shades, they cannot rise;
Therefore you punished them,
     destroyed them,
     eliminated all memory of them.
¹⁵You have added to the nation, YHWH.
You have added to the nation.
You have been glorified.
You have expanded the borders of the land.
¹⁶In trouble they called to you, YHWH.
They poured out their prayer as you corrected them.
¹⁷Like a pregnant woman who comes near to giving birth,
She writhes, she cries out in her pains,
Thus were we from before you, YHWH.
¹⁸We were pregnant, we writhed,
But we gave birth to wind.
We have not brought forth salvation on earth,
Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
¹⁹Your dead will live,
My corpses will rise.
Wake up and sing!
Those who dwell in the dust.
Like drops of light is your dew,
And the earth will bring forth the shades.
²⁰Come my people! Enter your chambers!
Close your doors after you.
Hide for just a moment,
until wrath passes over.
²¹For look! YHWH is going out from his place,
To repay the iniquity of the land's inhabitants on it.
The land will reveal its blood,
And will no longer conceal its slain.

Average revision: 3 (Draft # 1 by individual translator)