Isaiah 26: 1-9, 19

 

1: On that day this song will be sung in Judah:
We have a strong city
With walls and ramparts built for our safety.

2: Open the gates! Let a righteous nation enter,
a nation that keeps faith!

3: Lord, you keep those of firm purpose untroubled because of their trust in you.

4: Trust in the Lord for ever,
for He is an eternal rock

5: He has brought low
all who dwell high in a towering city;
He levels it to the ground
And lays it in the dust,

6: so that the oppressed and the poor may tread it underfoot.

7: The path of the righteous is smooth, and you, Lord, make level the way for the upright.

8: We have had regard to the path
prescribed in your laws,
your name and your renown are our heart’s desire

9: With all my heart I long for you in the night,
at dawn I seek for you;
for, when your laws prevail on earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn
what justice is.

19: But your dead will live,
their bodies will rise again.
Those who sleep in the earth
Will awake and shout for joy;
For your dew is a dew of sparkling light,
And the earth will bring those long
dead to birth again