(Isaiah 26)
1 In That Day
this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong
city;
God makes Salvation
its Walls and Ramparts,
2 Open the
gates that the Righteous Nation may enter,
The Nation that
keeps Faith.
3 You will
keep in Perfect Peace
Him whose mind is
Steadfast,
Because he Trust in
You.
4 Trust in
the Lord Forever,
For the Lord, the
Lord, is the Rock Eternal.
5 He humbles
those who dwell on high,
He lays the Lofty
City low;
He levels it to the
ground
And casts it down to
the dust.
6 Feet
Trample it down—
The feet of the
Oppressed,
The footsteps of the
poor.
7 The Path of
the Righteous is level;
O Upright One, You
make the way of the Righteous Smooth.
8 Yes, Lord,
walking in the Way of Your Laws,
We wait for You;
Your Name and Renown
are the desire of our hearts.
9 My soul
years for You in the night;
In the morning my
spirit longs for You.
When
your judgments come upon the Earth,
The
People of the World learn Righteousness.
10 Though
grace is shown to the Wicked
They do not learn
Righteousness.
Even in a land of
Uprightness they go on doing Evil
And regard not the
Majesty of the Lord.
11
O Lord, Your hand is Lifted High, but they do not see it.
Let them see your
Zeal for your people and be put to shame;
Let the Fire
reserved for your enemies consume them.
12 Lord, You
establish Peace for us;
All that we have
accomplished You have done for us.
13 O Lord,
our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us,
But Your Name alone
do we Honor.
14 They are
now dead, they live no more;
Those departed
spirits do not rise.
You Punished them
and brought them to Ruin;
You wiped out all
Memory of them.
15 You have
Enlarged the nation, O Lord;
You have gained
Glory for Yourself;
You have extended
all the borders of the Land.
16 Lord, they
came to You in their Distress;
When You Disciplined
them,
they could barely
whisper a prayer.
17 As a woman
with child and about to give birth
Writhes and cries
out in her pain,
So were we in Your
Presence, O Lord.
18 We were
with child, we writhed in pain,
But we gave birth to
the wind.
We have not brought
Salvation to the Earth;
We have not given
birth to people of the World.
19 But Your
dead will live;
Their bodies will
Rise.
Your Who dwell in
the dust,
Wake up and shout
for Joy.
Your dew is like the
dew of the morning;
The Earth will give
birth to her dead.
20
Go, my people, enter your rooms
And
shut the doors behind you;
Hide yourselves for
a little while
Until His Wrath has
passed by.
See, the Lord is
coming out of His Dwelling
To Punish the people
of the Earth for their Sins.
The Earth will
disclose the blood shed upon her;
She will conceal her
slain no longer.
(Isaiah 26)
[This is a picture of
the Bride of Christ in the desert [Rev. 12];
A place of protection
from the Wrath of God
To be poured out upon
the Earth
Because of the blood
the people of the Earth have shed.]
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