MLV(i)
1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city. He will appoint salvation for walls and ramparts.
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 Jehovah forever, for in Jehovah, even Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.
5 For he has brought down those who 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 will tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright directs the path of the just. 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for you, to your name. Even to your memorial, is the desire of our soul.
9 I have desired you with my soul in the night. Yes, with my spirit within 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 a wicked man, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah. 11 Jehovah, your hand is lifted up, yet they do not see. But they will see your zeal for the people and be put to shame. Yes, fire will devour your adversaries.
12 Jehovah, you will set peace for us, for you have also worked all our works for us. 13 O Jehovah our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but by you only we will make mention of your name. 14 Being dead, they will not live. Being deceased, they will not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them and made all remembrance of them to perish. 15 You have increased the nation, O Jehovah, you have increased the nation. You are glorified. You have enlarged all the borders of the land.
16 Jehovah, in trouble they have visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was upon them. 17 As a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, O Jehovah. 18 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We have as it were brought out wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Your dead will live. My dead bodies will arise. Awake and sing, you* who dwell in the dust, for your dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth will cast forth the dead. 20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers and shut your doors around you. Hide yourself for a little moment until the indignation have passed over.
21 For, behold, Jehovah comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood and will no more cover her slain.
5 For he has brought down those who 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 will tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright directs the path of the just. 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for you, to your name. Even to your memorial, is the desire of our soul.
9 I have desired you with my soul in the night. Yes, with my spirit within 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 a wicked man, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah. 11 Jehovah, your hand is lifted up, yet they do not see. But they will see your zeal for the people and be put to shame. Yes, fire will devour your adversaries.
12 Jehovah, you will set peace for us, for you have also worked all our works for us. 13 O Jehovah our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but by you only we will make mention of your name. 14 Being dead, they will not live. Being deceased, they will not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them and made all remembrance of them to perish. 15 You have increased the nation, O Jehovah, you have increased the nation. You are glorified. You have enlarged all the borders of the land.
16 Jehovah, in trouble they have visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was upon them. 17 As a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, O Jehovah. 18 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We have as it were brought out wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Your dead will live. My dead bodies will arise. Awake and sing, you* who dwell in the dust, for your dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth will cast forth the dead. 20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers and shut your doors around you. Hide yourself for a little moment until the indignation have passed over.
21 For, behold, Jehovah comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood and will no more cover her slain.