Isaiah 26:1-6

Revised Standard Version

“We have a strong city;
    he sets up salvation
    as walls and bulwarks.
² Open the gates,
    that the righteous nation which keeps faith
    may enter in.
³ Thou dost keep him in perfect peace,
    whose mind is stayed on thee,
    because he trusts in thee.
⁴ Trust in the Lord for ever,
    for the Lord God
    is an everlasting rock.
⁵ For he has brought low
    the inhabitants of the height,
    the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
    casts it to the dust.
⁶ The foot tramples it,
    the feet of the poor,
    the steps of the needy.”