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26:1  In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
26:2  Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
26:3  You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.
26:4  Trust in the LORD forever: for in the LORD GOD is everlasting strength:
26:5  For he brings down them that 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.
26:6  The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
26:7  The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do smooth the path of the just.
26:8  Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance of you.
26:9  With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
26:10  Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
26:11  LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy of the people; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.
26:12  LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have done all our works in us.
26:13  O LORD our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name.
26:14  They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
26:15  You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
26:16  LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was upon them.
26:17  Like a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD.
26:18  We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were given birth to wind; we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
26:19  Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
26:20  Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
26:21  For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her bloodshed, and shall no more cover her slain.