[1] In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a
strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks. [2] Open you
the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in. [3]
You will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on you];
because he trusts in you. [4] Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh,
is an everlasting Rock. [5] For 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. [6] The foot shall tread it down; even the feet
of the poor, and the steps of the needy. [7] The way of the just is
uprightness: you that are upright do direct the path of the just. [8] Yes,
in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name,
even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul. [9] With my soul
have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek
you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of
the world learn righteousness. [10] Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet
will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal
wrongfully, and will not see the majesty of Yahweh. [11] Yahweh, your hand
is lifted up, yet they don`t see: but they shall see [your] zeal for the
people, and be put to shame; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries. [12]
Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us; for you have also worked all our
works for us. [13] Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had
dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name. [14]
[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not
rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of
them to perish. [15] You have increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have
increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders
of the land. [16] Yahweh, in trouble have they visited you; they poured out
a prayer [when] your chastening was on them. [17] Like 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. [18] We have been with
child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have
not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of
the world fallen. [19] Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is [as] the dew of
herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead. [20] Come, my people, enter
you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself for a
little moment, until the indignation be past. [21] For, behold, Yahweh
comes forth 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.
