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¹ In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation he will appoint for walls and bulwarks.² Open 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 that 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 direct the path of the just.⁸ Yes, in the way of your judgments, O Yahweh, we have waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.⁹ With my soul I have desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit inside me I will seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.¹⁰ Let 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 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 appoint peace for us; for you have also wrought all our works for us.¹³ O Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only we will make mention of your name.¹⁴ [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance 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 they have visited you; they poured out a prayer [when] your chastening was on them.¹⁷ Like a woman pregnant, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, O Yahweh.¹⁸ We have been pregnant, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we haven't wrought 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 that 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 into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation has passed by.²¹ For, look, 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.