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href="../isaiah/25.htm" title="Isaiah 25">◄</a> Isaiah 26 <a href="../isaiah/27.htm" title="Isaiah 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/26.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">You Keep Him in Perfect Peace</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“We have a strong city;</span><br /><span class="indent">he sets up salvation</span><br /><span class="indent">as walls and bulwarks.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Open the gates,</span><br /><span class="indent">that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You keep him in perfect peace</span><br /><span class="indent">whose mind is stayed on you,</span><br /><span class="indent">because he trusts in you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Trust in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> forever,</span><br /><span class="indent">for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <span class="divine-name">God</span> is an everlasting rock.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For he has humbled</span><br /><span class="indent">the inhabitants of the height,</span><br /><span class="indent">the lofty city.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,</span><br /><span class="indent">casts it to the dust.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The foot tramples it,</span><br /><span class="indent">the feet of the poor,</span><br /><span class="indent">the steps of the needy.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The path of the righteous is level;</span><br /><span class="indent">you make level the way of the righteous.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In the path of your judgments,</span><br /><span class="indent">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, we wait for you;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">your name and remembrance</span><br /><span class="indent">are the desire of our soul.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My soul yearns for you in the night;</span><br /><span class="indent">my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For when your judgments are in the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent">the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If favor is shown to the wicked,</span><br /><span class="indent">he does not learn righteousness;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly</span><br /><span class="indent">and does not see the majesty of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, your hand is lifted up,</span><br /><span class="indent">but they do not see it.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.</span><br /><span class="indent">Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, you will ordain peace for us,</span><br /><span class="indent">for you have indeed done for us all our works.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God,</span><br /><span class="indent">other lords besides you have ruled over us,</span><br /><span class="indent">but your name alone we bring to remembrance.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They are dead, they will not live;</span><br /><span class="indent">they are shades, they will not arise;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to that end you have visited them with destruction</span><br /><span class="indent">and wiped out all remembrance of them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But you have increased the nation, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">you have increased the nation; you are glorified;</span><br /><span class="indent">you have enlarged all the borders of the land.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, in distress they sought you;</span><br /><span class="indent">they poured out a whispered prayer</span><br /><span class="indent">when your discipline was upon them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Like a pregnant woman</span><br /><span class="indent">who writhes and cries out in her pangs</span><br /><span class="indent">when she is near to giving birth,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">so were we because of you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="indent">we were pregnant, we writhed,</span><br /><span class="indent">but we have given birth to wind.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.</span><br /><span class="indent">You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For your dew is a dew of light,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the earth will give birth to the dead.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Come, my people, enter your chambers,</span><br /><span class="indent">and shut your doors behind you;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">hide yourselves for a little while</span><br /><span class="indent">until the fury has passed by.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For behold, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is coming out from his place</span><br /><span class="indent">to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and the earth will disclose the 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