Isaiah 26

1In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.Cross-references: Ex 15:2 · Num 21:17 · Judg 5:1 · 2Sam 22:1 · Ezra 3:11 · Ps 31:21 · +17 more

2Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.Cross-references: Ex 19:6 · Deut 4:6 · Ps 106:5 · Ps 118:20 · Isa 54:14 · Isa 58:8 · +12 more

3You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.Cross-references: 1Chr 5:20 · 2Chr 13:18 · 2Chr 16:8 · Ps 9:10 · Ps 85:7 · Isa 9:6 · +12 more

4Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.Cross-references: Deut 32:4 · Deut 32:15 · 1Sam 2:2 · 2Chr 20:20 · 2Chr 32:8 · Job 9:19 · +19 more

5For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.Cross-references: Job 40:11 · Isa 2:12 · Isa 13:11 · Isa 14:13 · Isa 25:11 · Isa 32:19 · +6 more

6The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.”Cross-references: Josh 10:24 · Isa 3:15 · Isa 25:10 · Isa 37:25 · Isa 60:14 · Jer 50:45 · +10 more

7The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:2 · 1Chr 29:17 · Job 27:5 · Job 31:6 · Ps 1:6 · Ps 11:4 · +11 more

8Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.Cross-references: Ex 3:15 · Num 36:13 · 2Sam 23:5 · Job 23:10 · Ps 13:1 · Ps 18:23 · +25 more

9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.Cross-references: Num 14:21 · Ps 58:11 · Ps 63:1 · Ps 63:6 · Ps 64:9 · Ps 77:2 · +14 more

10Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.Cross-references: Ex 8:15 · Ex 8:31 · Ex 9:34 · Deut 32:15 · 1Sam 15:17 · Ps 28:4 · +24 more

11Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.Cross-references: Ex 9:14 · 1Sam 5:6 · 1Sam 6:9 · Job 34:27 · Ps 10:12 · Ps 21:8 · +19 more

12Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.Cross-references: Deut 30:6 · Ps 29:11 · Ps 57:2 · Isa 57:10 · Jer 33:6 · Ezek 20:9 · +6 more

13Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but we will only acknowledge your name.Cross-references: Josh 23:7 · 2Chr 12:8 · Isa 2:8 · Isa 10:11 · Isa 12:4 · Isa 51:22 · +6 more

14The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.Cross-references: Ex 14:30 · Deut 4:28 · Ps 9:6 · Ps 106:28 · Ps 109:13 · Prov 10:7 · +10 more

15You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:16 · Num 23:10 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 10:22 · Deut 28:25 · +25 more

16Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.Cross-references: Deut 4:29 · Judg 10:9 · 1Sam 1:15 · 2Chr 6:37 · 2Chr 33:12 · Ps 42:4 · +10 more

17Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, Yahweh.Cross-references: Ps 48:6 · Isa 13:8 · Isa 21:3 · Jer 4:31 · Jer 6:24 · Jer 30:6 · +2 more

18We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.Cross-references: Ex 5:22 · Josh 7:7 · 1Sam 11:13 · 1Sam 14:45 · 2Ki 19:3 · Ps 17:14 · +6 more

19Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.Cross-references: Gen 2:5 · Deut 32:2 · Deut 33:13 · Deut 33:28 · Job 29:19 · Ps 22:15 · +26 more

20Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.Cross-references: Gen 7:1 · Gen 7:16 · Ex 12:22 · Ps 17:8 · Ps 27:5 · Ps 30:5 · +18 more

21For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.Cross-references: Gen 4:10 · Num 35:32 · Job 16:18 · Ps 50:2 · Isa 13:11 · Isa 18:4 · +15 more