Isaiah 26 - 27 — Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh Will Establish Peace

26^aIn that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a ^bstrong city;He sets up walls and ramparts for ^csalvation.

²“Open the ^agates, that the ^brighteous nation may enter,The one that keeps faithfulness.³“The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect ^apeaceBecause he trusts in You.⁴“^aTrust in Yahweh forever,For in Yah—Yahweh Himself—we have an everlasting ^bRock.⁵“For He has laid low those who settle on high, the ¹^,^aexalted city;^bHe brings it low, He brings it low to the ground, He casts it to the dust.⁶“^aThe foot will trample it,The feet of the ^bafflicted, the steps of the poor.”⁷The ^away of the righteous is upright;O Upright One, ^bmake the path of the righteous level.⁸Indeed, while following the way of ^aYour judgments, O Yahweh,We have hoped for You eagerly;^bYour name—the ^cmemory of You—is the desire of our souls.⁹^aAt night ¹my soul longs for You,Indeed, ²my spirit within me ^bseeks You earnestly;For when the earth ³experiences Your judgments,The inhabitants of the world ^clearn righteousness.¹⁰Though the wicked is shown favor,He does not ^alearn righteousness;He ^bdeals unjustly in the land of uprightness,And does not perceive the majesty of Yahweh.¹¹O Yahweh, Your hand is raised up high, yet they ^ado not behold it.¹They behold ^bYour zeal for the people and are put to shame;Indeed, ²^,^cfire will devour Your adversaries.¹²Yahweh, You will establish ^apeace for us,Since You have also performed for us all our works.¹³O Yahweh our God, ^aother masters besides You have ruled us;But through You alone we ^bbring Your name to remembrance.¹⁴^aThe dead will not live; the ¹departed spirits will not rise;Therefore You have ^bvisited and destroyed them,And You have made all remembrance of them perish.¹⁵^aYou have increased the nation, O Yahweh;You have increased the nation, You are glorified;You have ^bextended all the borders of the land.¹⁶O Yahweh, they visited You ^ain distress;They ¹could only whisper a prayer;Your chastening was upon them.¹⁷^aAs the ¹woman 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.¹⁸We were ¹with child, we writhed in labor;We ^agave birth, as it seems, only to wind.We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,And the ^binhabitants of the world ²were not born.¹⁹Your ^adead will live;¹Their corpses will rise.You who dwell in the dust, ^bawake and shout for joy,For your dew is as the dew of the ²dawn,And the earth will ³give birth to the ⁴departed spirits.²⁰Come, my people, ^aenter into your roomsAnd close your doors behind you;Hide for a little ¹^,^bwhileUntil ^cindignation passes by.²¹For behold, Yahweh is about to ^acome out from His placeTo ^bvisit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth;And the earth will ^creveal her bloodshedAnd will no longer cover those of hers who were killed.

Yahweh Will Deliver Israel

27In that day ^aYahweh will ¹punish ²^,^bLeviathan the fleeing serpent,With His fierce and great and ³mighty sword,Even ⁴Leviathan the twisted serpent;And ^cHe will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.²In that day,“A ¹^,^avineyard of delight, sing of it!³“I, Yahweh, am its keeper;^aI water it every moment.Lest anyone ¹damage it,I ^bkeep it night and day.⁴“I have no wrath.Who would ever give Me ^abriars and thorns in the battle?I would step on them, ^bI would burn them ¹completely.⁵“Or let him ¹^,^arely on My strong defense,Let him make peace with Me,Let him ^bmake peace with Me.”⁶¹In the days to come Jacob ^awill take root,Israel will ^bblossom and bud,And they will fill the ²whole world with ^cproduce.⁷Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has ^aHe struck them?Or like the slaughter of those of His who were killed, ¹have they been killed?⁸You contended with them ¹by driving them away, by ^amaking them forlorn.With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the ^beast wind.⁹Therefore through this, Jacob’s iniquity will be ^aatoned for;And this will be the whole fruit of the ^bturning away of his sin:When he makes all the ^caltar stones like pulverized chalk stones,When ¹Asherim and incense altars will not stand.¹⁰For the fortified city is ^aisolated,A ¹haunt ²forlorn and forsaken like the desert;^bThere the calf will graze,And there it will lie down and ³feed on its twigs.¹¹When its ^alimbs are dry, they are broken off;Women come and light a fire with them,For they are not a people of ^bdiscernment,Therefore ^ctheir Maker ^dwill not have compassion on them.And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

¹²And it will be in that day, that Yahweh ^awill start His threshing from the flowing stream of the ¹^,^bRiver to the brook of Egypt, and you will be ^cgathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. ¹³And it will be in that day, that a great ^atrumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of ^bAssyria and who were banished in the land of Egypt will come and ^cworship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.