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Judah’s Song of Victory

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

We have a strong city;
    he sets up walls and bulwarks as a safeguard.(A)
Open the gates,
    so that the righteous nation that maintains faithfulness
    may enter in.(B)
Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace,
    in peace because they trust in you.
Trust in the Lord forever,
    for in the Lord God[a]
    you have an everlasting rock.(C)
For he has brought low
    the inhabitants of the height;
    the lofty city he lays low.
He lays it low to the ground,
    casts it to the dust.(D)
The foot tramples it,
    the feet of the poor,
    the steps of the needy.(E)

The way of the righteous is level;
    straight is the path of the righteous that you clear.(F)
In the path of your judgments,
    O Lord, we have placed hope;
your name and your renown
    are the soul’s desire.(G)
My soul yearns for you in the night;
    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgments are in the earth,
    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 26.4 Heb in Yah, the Lord