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Within it will be set the city of our strength: Zion, a savior, a wall with a bulwark.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Open the gates, and let the just people who guard the truth enter.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The old error has gone away. You will serve peace: peace, for we have hoped in you.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You have trusted in the Lord for all eternity, in the Lord God almighty forever.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For he will bend down those living in the heights. He will bring low the lofty city. He will lower it, even to the ground. He will tear it down, even to the dust.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The foot will tread it down: the feet of the poor, the steps of the indigent.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The path of the just is upright; the difficult path of the just is right to walk in.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And in the path of your judgments, O Lord, we have endured for you. Your name and your remembrance are the desire of the soul.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My soul has desired you in the night. But I will also watch for you with my spirit, in my inmost heart, from the morning. When you accomplish your judgments upon the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn justice.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Let us take pity on the impious one, but he will not learn justice. In the land of the holy ones, he has done iniquity, and so he will not see the glory of the Lord.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Lord, let your hand be exalted, and let them not see it. May the envious people see and be confounded. And may fire devour your enemies.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Lord, you will give us peace. For all our works have been wrought for us by you.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>O Lord our God, other lords have possessed us apart from you, but in you alone let us remember your name.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Let not the dead live; let not the giants rise up again. For this reason, you have visited and destroyed them, and you have perished all remembrance of them.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You have been lenient to the people, O Lord, lenient to the people. But have you been glorified? You have removed all the limits of the earth.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Lord, they have sought you in anguish. Your doctrine was with them, amid the tribulation of murmuring.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Like a woman who has conceived and is approaching the time for delivery, who, in anguish, cries out in her pains, so have we become before your face, O Lord.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>We have conceived, and it is as if we were in labor, but we have given birth to wind. We have not brought forth salvation on the earth. For this reason, the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Your dead shall live. My slain will rise again. Be awakened, and give praise, you who live in the dust! For your dew is the dew of the light, and you shall be dragged down to the land of the giants, to ruination.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Go, my people! Enter your chambers. Close your doors behind you. Conceal yourselves for a very brief time, until the indignation has passed over you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/26-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For behold, the Lord will go forth from his place, so that he may visit the iniquity of each inhabitant of the earth against him. And the earth will reveal its blood, and it will no longer cover its slain.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><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 id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>