OET-RV ISA Chapter 26

26 A song will be sung in Yehudah (Judah) at that time:

Yerushalem city is strong.

He gave us walls and ramparts to keep us safe.

2 Open the gates so a righteous nation can enter—

one that remains faithful.

3 The one withtheir mind made up firmly will have true peace,

because he puts his trust in you.

4 Put your trust in Yahweh forever,

because Yah (Yahweh) is a stable rock.

5 That’s because he humbles those who live in high places.

≈ He’ll bring low the town that’s been elevated.

≈ He’ll will lay it low to the ground—levelling it down to dust.

6 It will be trampled down by feet—

the feet of the oppressed,

≈ the footsteps of the poor.

7 The righteous person’s path is level.

You, the one who does what’s right, will flatten their paths.

8 We’ve we’ve followed your instructions, Yahweh, we’ve kept our trust in you—

we desire to honour your name and reputation

9 From deep inside me, I have longed for you in the night—

my spirit within me earnestly waits for you,

because when people have your instructions,

the world’s inhabitants learns to discern what’s right.

10 If the wicked person is shown favour,

they won’t learn to do what’s right.

Even in a land where doing right is valued,

they act unjustly and won’t get to see Yahweh’s majesty.

11 Yahweh, when you take action, they don’t perceive it.

Let them see and be ashamed by the people’s zeal,

Also, the fire will consume your enemies.[ref]

12 Yahweh, you’ll establish peace for us,

because you indeed have taken action on our behalf.

13 Yahweh our god, we’ve been ruled over by other masters,

but you only, are the one that we honour.

14 Those dead ones won’t live—those departed spirits won’t rise again,

indeed you’ve visited and destroyed them,

and erased all memory of them.

15 You’ve enlarged the nation, Yahweh,

yes, enlarged it and gained honour—

you’ve extended all the land’s boundaries.

16 Yahweh, when they were distressed,

the people went to find you with their quiet request, when you’d disciplined them.

17 Like a pregnant woman who’s close to giving birth cries out from her labour pains,

that’s what we were like in front of you, Yahweh.

18 It’s like we were pregnant and in labour, giving birth to wind.

We haven’t rescued anyone on the earth,

and the world’s inhabitants haven’t fallen.

19 Your dead will live—their corpses will rise.

Wake up and sing happily, you all who’ve lived in the dust,

because your dew is the dew that gives light

and the earth will release her dead.

20 Go my people—enter into your rooms and shut the door behind you.

Hide a little while until the indignation has passed by.

21 Listen, Yahweh is about to come out of his place, to punish all the world’s inhabitants,

and the earth will reveal all its bloodshed and will no longer cover over those who were killed.