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Isaiah - Chapter 26

	Isa 26:1	In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; [God] will appoint salvation [for] walls and bulwarks.
	Isa 26:2	Open the gates, That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
	Isa 26:3	You will keep [him] in perfect peace, [Whose] mind [is] stayed [on You], Because he trusts in You.
	Isa 26:4	Trust in the LORD forever, For in Yah, the LORD, [is] everlasting strength. [fn]
	Isa 26:5	For He brings down those who dwell on high, The lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He brings it down to the dust.
	Isa 26:6	The foot shall tread it down-- The feet of the poor [And] the steps of the needy."
	Isa 26:7	The way of the just [is] uprightness; O Most Upright, You weigh the path of the just.
	Isa 26:8	Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You; The desire of [our] soul [is] for Your name And for the remembrance of You.
	Isa 26:9	With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments [are] in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
	Isa 26:10	Let grace be shown to the wicked, [Yet] he will not learn righteousness; In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, And will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
	Isa 26:11	LORD, [when] Your hand is lifted up, they will not see. But they will see and be ashamed For [their] envy of people; Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.
	Isa 26:12	LORD, You will establish peace for us, For You have also done all our works in us.
	Isa 26:13	O LORD our God, masters besides You Have had dominion over us; [But] by You only we make mention of Your name.
	Isa 26:14	[They are] dead, they will not live; [They are] deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish.
	Isa 26:15	You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You have expanded all the borders of the land.
	Isa 26:16	LORD, in trouble they have visited You, They poured out a prayer [when] Your chastening [was] upon them.
	Isa 26:17	As a woman with child Is in pain and cries out in her pangs, [When] she draws near the time of her delivery, So have we been in Your sight, O LORD.
	Isa 26:18	We have been with child, we have been in pain; We have, as it were, brought forth wind; We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth, Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
	Isa 26:19	Your dead shall live; [Together with] my dead body [fn] they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew [is like] the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.
	Isa 26:20	Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, Until the indignation is past.
	Isa 26:21	For behold, the LORD comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, And will no more cover her slain.

NKJV Footnotes:

(26:4) Or Rock of Ages
(26:19) Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Syriac and Targum read their dead bodies; Septuagint reads those in the tombs.

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