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¹ In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks. ² Open the gates, That the righteous nation which keeps the truth 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 the Lord forever,For in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength. [fn]

⁵ For He brings down those who dwell on high, The lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He brings it down to the dust. ⁶ The foot shall tread it down-- The feet of the poor And the steps of the needy." ⁷ The way of the just is uprightness; O Most Upright, You weigh the path of the just. ⁸ Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You; The desire of our soul is for Your name And for the remembrance of You. ⁹ With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. ¹⁰ Let grace be shown to the wicked, Yet he will not learn righteousness; In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, And will not behold the majesty of the LORD. ¹¹ LORD, when Your hand is lifted up, they will not see. But they will see and be ashamed For their envy of people; Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.

¹² LORD, You will establish peace for us, For You have also done all our works in us. ¹³ O LORD our God, masters besides You Have had dominion over us; But by You only we make mention of Your name. ¹⁴ They are dead, they will not live; They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish. ¹⁵ You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You have expanded all the borders of the land. ¹⁶ LORD, in trouble they have visited You, They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them. ¹⁷ As a woman with child Is in pain and cries out in her pangs, When she draws near the time of her delivery, So have we been in Your sight, O LORD. ¹⁸ We have been with child, we have been in pain; We have, as it were, brought forth wind; We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth, Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen. ¹⁹ Your dead shall live;Together with my dead body [fn] they shall arise.Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust;For your dew is like the dew of herbs,And the earth shall cast out the dead.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, Until the indignation is past. ²¹ For behold, the LORD comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, And will no more cover her slain.