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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 26 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; 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<t><p class="indent1">He sets up salvation as walls and ramparts. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, <t><p class="indent1">The one that <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>remains faithful <i>and</i> trustworthy. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“You will keep in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>perfect <i>and</i> constant peace <i>the one</i> whose mind is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You--in both <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>inclination and character], <t><p class="indent1">Because he trusts <i>and</i> takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Trust [confidently] in the LORD forever [He is your fortress, your shield, your banner], <t><p class="indent1">For the LORD GOD is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“For He has thrown down the [arrogant] ones who dwell on high, the lofty <i>and</i> inaccessible city; <t><p class="indent1">He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He hurls it to the dust. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“The foot will trample it, <t><p class="indent1"><i>Even</i> the feet of the suffering, and the steps of the helpless.” <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The way of the righteous [those in right-standing with God--living in moral and spiritual integrity] is smooth <i>and</i> level; <t><p class="indent1">O Upright One, make a level path for the just <i>and</i> righteous. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Indeed, in the path of Your judgments, O LORD, <t><p class="indent1">We have waited expectantly for You; <t><p class="indent1">Your name, even Your memory, is the desire <i>and</i> deep longing of our souls. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In the night my soul longs for You [O LORD], <t><p class="indent1">Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; <t><p class="indent1">For [only] when Your judgments are experienced on the earth <t><p class="indent1">Will the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><i>Though</i> the wicked is shown compassion <i>and</i> favor, <t><p class="indent1">He does not learn righteousness; <t><p class="indent1">In the land of uprightness he deals unjustly, <t><p class="indent1">And refuses to see the majesty of the LORD. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><i>Though</i> Your hand is lifted up [to strike], O LORD, the wicked do not see it. <t><p class="indent1">Let them see Your zeal for <i>Your</i> people and be put to shame; <t><p class="indent1">Indeed, let the fire reserved for Your enemies consume them. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>LORD, You will establish peace for us, <t><p class="indent1">Since You have also performed for us all that we have done. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>O LORD our God, other masters besides You have ruled over us; <t><p class="indent1">But through You alone we confess Your name. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The [wicked] dead will not live [again], the spirits of the dead will not rise <i>and</i> return; <t><p class="indent1">Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, <t><p class="indent1">And You have wiped out every memory of them [every trace of them]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You have increased the nation, O LORD; <t><p class="indent1">You have increased the nation, You are glorified; <t><p class="indent1">You have extended all the borders of the land. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>O LORD, they sought You in distress; <t><p class="indent1">They managed only a prayerful whisper <t><p class="indent1">When Your discipline was upon them. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>As a woman with child approaches <i>the time</i> to give birth, <t><p class="indent1">She is in pain <i>and</i> struggles and cries out in her labor, <t><p class="indent1">So we were before You, O LORD. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>We have been with child, we have twisted <i>and</i> struggled <i>in labor;</i> <t><p class="indent1">We gave birth, as it seems, <i>only</i> to wind. <t><p class="indent1">We could not accomplish salvation for the earth, <t><p class="indent1">Nor were inhabitants of the world <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>born. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Your dead will live; <t><p class="indent1"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>Their dead bodies will rise. <t><p class="indent1">You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy! <t><p class="indent1">For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural], <t><p class="indent1">And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Come, my people, enter your chambers <t><p class="indent1">And shut your doors behind you; <t><p class="indent1">Hide for a little while <t><p class="indent1">Until the [LORD’S] <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>wrath is past. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Listen carefully, the LORD is about to come out of His [heavenly] place <t><p class="indent1">To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing]; <t><p class="indent1">The earth will reveal the [innocent] blood shed upon her <t><p class="indent1">And will no longer cover her slain.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>keeps trustworthiness</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>peace, peace,</i> a Hebrew idiom of emphasis.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> The Hebrew word for <i>inclination</i> became a technical term in Jewish tradition, and the rabbis frequently referred to the “evil inclination” much in the same sense as the sin nature. They also recognized a “good inclination,” which the righteous choose to follow, and urged people to make their good inclination king over the evil inclination.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>fallen</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> So with some ancient versions; MT reads <i>My dead body</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[f]</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>curse</i>.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/25.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 25"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 25" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/27.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 27"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 27" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>