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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/26.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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27">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">God Will Give His People Victory</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_26_1"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.1" class="v23_26_1">1</span>A day is coming when the people will sing this song in the land of Judah:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_1">Our city is strong!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_1">God himself defends its walls!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.2" class="v23_26_2">2</span>Open the city gates</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_2">and let the faithful nation enter,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_2">the nation whose people do what is right.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.3" class="v23_26_3">3</span>You, <span class="nd">Lord</span>, give perfect peace</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_3">to those who keep their purpose firm</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_3">and put their trust in you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.4" class="v23_26_4">4</span>Trust in the <span class="nd">Lord</span> forever;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_4">he will always protect us.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.5" class="v23_26_5">5</span>He has humbled those who were proud;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_5">he destroyed the strong city they lived in,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_5">and sent its walls crashing into the dust.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.6" class="v23_26_6">6</span>Those who were oppressed walk over it now</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_6">and trample it under their feet.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.7" class="v23_26_7">7</span><span class="nd">Lord</span>, you make the path smooth for good people;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_7">the road they travel is level.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_8"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.8" class="v23_26_8">8</span>We follow your will and put our hope in you;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_8">you are all that we desire.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.9" class="v23_26_9">9</span>At night I long for you with all my heart;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_9">when you judge the earth and its people,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_9">they will all learn what justice is.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.10" class="v23_26_10">10</span>Even though you are kind to the wicked,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_10">they never learn to do what is right.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_10">Even here in a land of righteous people</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_10">they still do wrong;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_10">they refuse to recognize your greatness.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.11" class="v23_26_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.26.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Your enemies do not know that you will punish them.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_11"><span class="nd">Lord</span>, put them to shame and let them suffer;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_11">let them suffer the punishment you have prepared.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_11">Show them how much you love your people.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.12" class="v23_26_12">12</span>You will give us prosperity, <span class="nd">Lord</span>;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_12">everything that we achieve</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_12">is the result of what you do.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.26.12!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.13" class="v23_26_13">13</span><span class="nd">Lord</span> our God, we have been ruled by others,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_13">but you alone are our <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.14" class="v23_26_14">14</span>Now they are dead and will not live again;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_14">their ghosts will not rise,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_14">for you have punished them and destroyed them.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_14">No one remembers them any more.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_15"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.15" class="v23_26_15">15</span><span class="nd">Lord</span>, you have made our nation grow,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_15">enlarging its territory on every side;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_15">and this has brought you honor.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_16"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.16" class="v23_26_16">16</span>You punished your people, <span class="nd">Lord</span>,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_16">and in anguish they prayed to you.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.26.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_17"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.17" class="v23_26_17">17</span>You, <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have made us cry out,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_17">as a woman in labor cries out in pain.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_18"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.18" class="v23_26_18">18</span>We were in pain and agony,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_18">but we gave birth to nothing.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_18">We have won no victory for our land;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_18">we have accomplished nothing.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.26.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_19"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.19" class="v23_26_19">19</span>Those of our people who have died will live again!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_19">Their bodies will come back to life.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_19">All those sleeping in their graves</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_19">will wake up and sing for joy.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_26_19">As the sparkling dew refreshes the earth,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_26_19">so the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will revive those who have long been dead.</span></p><h3 class="s">Judgment and Restoration</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_26_20"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.20" class="v23_26_20">20</span>Go into your houses, my people, and shut the door behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until God's anger is over. </span><span class="v23_26_21"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.26.21" class="v23_26_21">21</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> is coming from his heavenly dwelling place to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The murders that were secretly committed on the earth will be revealed, and the ground will no longer hide those who have been killed.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">26.12: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">everything that … do; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">you treat us according to what we do.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">26.16: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Verse 16 in Hebrew is unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">26.18: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">We have won … nothing; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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