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Chapter
26
- 26:1
- In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah;
We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls
and bulwarks.
- 26:2
- Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth
the truth may enter in.
- 26:3
- Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed
on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
- 26:4
- Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is
everlasting strength:
- 26:5
- For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city,
he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth
it even to the dust.
- 26:6
- The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor,
and the steps of the needy.
- 26:7
- The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost
weigh the path of the just.
- 26:8
- Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited
for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the
remembrance of thee.
- 26:9
- With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with
my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments
are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
- 26:10
- Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly,
and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
- 26:11
- LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but
they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people;
yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
- 26:12
- LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought
all our works in us.
- 26:13
- O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion
over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
- 26:14
- They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they
shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them,
and made all their memory to perish.
- 26:15
- Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased
the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto
all the ends of the earth.
- 26:16
- LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out
a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
- 26:17
- Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of
her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have
we been in thy sight, O LORD.
- 26:18
- We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as
it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance
in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
- 26:19
- Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall
they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew
is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
- 26:20
- Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy
doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment,
until the indignation be overpast.
- 26:21
- For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also
shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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