1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah;We have a strong city;salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates,that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:because he trusteth in thee.
4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever:for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high;the lofty city, he layeth it low;he layeth it low, even to the ground;he bringeth 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:thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord,have we waited for thee;the desire of our soul is to thy name,and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night;yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early:for when thy judgments are in the earth,the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness:in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly,and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
11 Lord, when thy hand is lifted up,they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamedfor their envy at the people;yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
12 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us:for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
13 O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise:therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them,and made all their memory to perish.
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord,thou hast increased the nation;thou art glorified:thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee;they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery,is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs;so have we been in thy 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 wrought any deliverance in the earth;neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:for thy dew is as the dew of herbs,and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers,and shut thy doors about thee:hide thyself as it were for a little moment,until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his placeto punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:the earth also shall disclose her blood,and shall no more cover her slain.