1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have
a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open
you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.
3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind
is stayed on you; because he trusts in you. 4 Trust
in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock. 5 For he
has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays it low, he
lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust. 6 The foot
shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: you that are upright do direct the
path of the just. 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we
waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial name, is the
desire of our soul. 9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes,
with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments
are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. 10 Let
favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the
land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not see the majesty of
Yahweh. 11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see: but they
shall see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed; yes, fire
shall devour your adversaries. 12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us;
for you have also worked all our works for us. 13 Yahweh our God, other
lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make
mention of your name. 14 They are dead, they shall not live;
they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited
and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish. 15 You have
increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are
glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land. 16 Yahweh,
in trouble have they visited you; they poured out a prayer when your
chastening was on them. 17 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the
time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been
before you, Yahweh. 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain,
we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in
the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. 19 Your dead
shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in
the dust; for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall
cast forth the dead. 20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and
shut your doors about you: hide yourself for a little moment, until the
indignation be past. 21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also
shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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