Isaiah 26 - 27 - Legacy Standard Bible

Isaiah 26 - 27

Yahweh Will Establish Peace

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“We have a strong city;

He sets up walls and ramparts for salvation.

Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter,

The one that keeps faithfulness.

The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace

Because he trusts in You.

Trust in Yahweh forever,

For in Yah—Yahweh Himself—we have an everlasting Rock.

For He has laid low those who settle on high, the exalted city;

He brings it low, He brings it low to the ground, He casts it to the dust.

The foot will trample it,

The feet of the afflicted, the steps of the poor.”

The way of the righteous is upright;

O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.

Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O Yahweh,

We have hoped for You eagerly;

Your name—the memory of You—is the desire of our souls.

At night my soul longs for You,

Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You earnestly;

For when the earth experiences Your judgments,

The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Though the wicked is shown favor,

He does not learn righteousness;

He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness,

And does not perceive the majesty of Yahweh.

O Yahweh, Your hand is raised up high, yet they do not behold it.

They behold Your zeal for the people and are put to shame;

Indeed, fire will devour Your adversaries.

Yahweh, You will establish peace for us,

Since You have also performed for us all our works.

O Yahweh our God, other masters besides You have ruled us;

But through You alone we bring Your name to remembrance.

The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise;

Therefore You have visited and destroyed them,

And You have made all remembrance of them perish.

You have increased the nation, O Yahweh;

You have increased the nation, You are glorified;

You have extended all the borders of the land.

O Yahweh, they visited You in distress;

They could only whisper a prayer;

Your chastening was upon them.

As the woman with child draws near to the time to give birth,

She writhes and cries out in her pangs of labor,

Thus were we before You, O Yahweh.

We were with child, we writhed in labor;

We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.

We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,

And the inhabitants of the world were not born.

Your dead will live;

Their corpses will rise.

You who dwell in the dust, awake and shout for joy,

For your dew is as the dew of the dawn,

And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms

And close your doors behind you;

Hide for a little while

Until indignation passes by.

For behold, Yahweh is about to come out from His place

To visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth;

And the earth will reveal her bloodshed

And will no longer cover those of hers who were killed.

Yahweh Will Deliver Israel

In that day Yahweh will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,

With His fierce and great and mighty sword,

Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;

And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

In that day,

“A vineyard of delight, sing of it!

I, Yahweh, am its keeper;

I water it every moment.

Lest anyone damage it,

I keep it night and day.

I have no wrath.

Who would ever give Me briars and thorns in the battle?

I would step on them, I would burn them completely.

Or let him rely on My strong defense,

Let him make peace with Me,

Let him make peace with Me.”

In the days to come Jacob will take root,

Israel will blossom and bud,

And they will fill the whole world with produce.

Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?

Or like the slaughter of those of His who were killed, have they been killed?

You contended with them by driving them away, by making them forlorn.

With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.

Therefore through this, Jacob’s iniquity will be atoned for;

And this will be the whole fruit of the turning away of his sin:

When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones,

When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

For the fortified city is isolated,

A haunt forlorn and forsaken like the desert;

There the calf will graze,

And there it will lie down and feed on its twigs.

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;

Women come and light a fire with them,

For they are not a people of discernment,

Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.

And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

12 And it will be in that day, that Yahweh will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. 13 And it will be in that day, that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were banished in the land of Egypt will come and worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.