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[1] In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah, We have a strong city: salvation shall God set for walls and bulwarks.
[2] Open ye the gates that the righteous nation, which keepeth the truth, may enter in.
[3] By an assured purpose wilt thou preserve perfect peace, because they trusted in thee.
[4] Trust in the Lord forever: for in the Lord God is strength forevermore.
[5] For he will bring down them that dwell on high: the high city he will abase: even unto the ground will he cast it down, and bring it unto 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 righteousness: thou wilt make equal the righteous path of the just.
[8] Also we, O Lord, have waited for thee in the way of thy judgments: 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, and with my spirit within me will I seek thee in the morning: for seeing thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness.
[10] Let mercy be showed to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he do wickedly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
[11] O Lord, they will not behold thine high hand: but they shall see it, and be confounded with the zeal of the people, and the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
[12] Lord, unto us thou wilt ordain peace: for thou also hast wrought all our works for us.
[13] O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have ruled us, but we will remember thee only, and thy name.
[14] The dead shall not live, neither shall the dead arise, because thou hast visited and scattered them, and destroyed all their memory.
[15] Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord: thou hast increased the nation: thou art made glorious: thou hast enlarged all the coasts 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 to the travail, is in sorrow, and crieth in her pains, so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.
[18] We have conceived we have born in pain, as though we should have brought forth wind: there was no help in the earth, neither did the inhabitants of the world fall.
[19] Thy dead men shall live: even with my body shall they rise. 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 after thee: hide thyself for a very little while, until the indignation pass over.
[21] For lo, the Lord cometh out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more hide her slain.
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