ישעיהו כו

In that day, this song shall be sung
In the land of Judah:
Ours is a mighty city;
[God] makes victory our inner and outer wall.

Open the gates, and let
A righteous nation enter,
[A nation] that keeps faith.

The confident mind You guard in safety,
In safety because it trusts in You.

Trust in GOD—for ever and ever,
For in Yah—GOD—you have an everlasting Rock.

For [God] has brought low those who dwelt high up,
Has humbled the secure city,
Humbled it to the ground,
Leveled it with the dust—

To be trampled underfoot,
By the feet of the needy,
By the soles of the poor.

The path is level for the righteous;
O Just One, You make smooth the course of the righteous.

For Your just ways, O ETERNAL One, we look to You;
We long for the name by which You are called.

At night I yearn for You with all my being,
I seek You with all the spirit within me.
For when Your judgments are wrought on earth,
The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

But the scoundrel, when spared, learns not righteousness;
Doing wrong in a place of integrity—
Ignoring GOD’s majesty.

O ETERNAL One!
They see not Your hand exalted.
Let them be shamed as they behold
Your zeal for Your people
And fire consuming Your adversaries.

O ETERNAL One!
May You appoint well-being for us,
Since You have also requited all our misdeeds.

O ETERNAL One our God!
Rulers other than You possessed us,
But only Your name shall we utter.

They are dead, they can never live;
Shades, they can never rise;
Of a truth, You have dealt with them and wiped them out,
Have put an end to all mention of them.

When You added to the nation, O ETERNAL One—
When You added to the nation,
Extending all the boundaries of the land,
You were honored.

O ETERNAL One! In their distress, they sought You;
Your chastisement reduced them
To anguished as a noun formed like zadon and sason. whispered prayer.

Like a woman with child
Approaching childbirth,
Writhing and screaming in her pangs,
So are we become because of You, O ETERNAL One.

We were with child, we writhed—
It is as though we had given birth to wind;
We have won no victory on earth;
The inhabitants of the world have not come to life!

Oh, let Your dead revive!
Let corpses arise!
Awake and shout for joy,
You who dwell in the dust!—
For Your dew is like the dew on fresh growth;
You make the land of the shades come to life.

Go, my people, enter your chambers,
And lock your doors behind you.
Hide but a little moment,
Until the indignation passes.

For lo!
GOD shall come forth from seclusion
To punish the dwellers of the earth
For their iniquity;
And the earth shall disclose its bloodshed
And shall no longer conceal its slain.