Isaiah 26

You Keep Him in Perfect Peace

1 In that day e this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
"We have a strong city;
he sets up f salvation
as walls and bulwarks.
 2 g Open the gates,
that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
 3 h You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
 4 Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
 5 i For he has humbled
the inhabitants of the height,
the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
casts it to the dust.
 6 The foot tramples it,
the feet of j the poor,
the steps of j the needy."

7 The path of the righteous is level;
k you make level the way of the righteous.
 8 In the path of your judgments,
O Lord, we wait for you;
l your name and l remembrance
are the desire of our soul.
 9 My soul yearns for you in the night;
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
m For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
 10 n If favor is shown to the wicked,
he does not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly
and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
 11 O Lord, o your hand is lifted up,
but p they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
Let q the fire for your adversaries consume them.
 12 O Lord, you will ordain r peace for us,
for you have indeed done for us all our works.
 13 O Lord our God,
s other lords besides you have ruled over us,
t but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
 14 They are dead, they will not live;
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
and wiped out all remembrance of them.
 15 u But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
v you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

16 O Lord, w in distress they sought you;
they poured out a whispered prayer
when your discipline was upon them.
 17 x Like a pregnant woman
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
 18 x we were pregnant, we writhed,
but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
 19 y Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For z your dew is a dew of light,
and the earth will give birth to the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves a for a little while
until the fury has passed by.
 21 b For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of c the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and will no more cover its slain.

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:2
    In that day, "A pleasant vineyard, sing of it!
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 60:18
    Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 118:19 - 20
    Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
  4. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:15
    For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling.
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:12
    And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:4
    For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.
  7. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:4
    For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.
  8. Cross References
    1 Samuel 2:9
    He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail.
    Psalms 37:23
    The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 3:15
    God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
  10. Cross References
    Exodus 3:15
    God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
  11. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:16
    O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
    2 Chronicles 33:12
    And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
  12. Cross References
    Psalms 73:3 - 11
    For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
  13. Cross References
    Micah 5:9
    Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
  14. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:12
    They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.
  15. Cross References
    Psalms 21:9
    You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.
    Isaiah 33:14
    The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?
  16. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:7
    Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
    Micah 5:5
    And he shall be their peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land and treads in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men.
  17. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:8
    Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
    2 Kings 16:3 - 4
    But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
  18. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:20
    In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats.
    Psalms 20:7
    Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
    2 Kings 18:4 - 6
    He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).
  19. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:3
    You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
  20. Cross References
    Isaiah 54:2 - 3
    Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
  21. Cross References
    Hosea 5:15
    I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.
    Isaiah 37:1 - 4
    As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.
  22. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:8
    They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
  23. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:17
    Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O Lord.
  24. Cross References
    Ezekiel 37:12
    Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God : Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.
    Daniel 12:2
    And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
    Hosea 13:14
    Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
  25. Cross References
    Hosea 14:5
    I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon.
  26. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:25
    For in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.
  27. Cross References
    Micah 1:3
    For behold, the Lord is coming out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.
  28. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:5
    The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
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