26 Psalms

13 Isaiah 26
 ¹In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah, City whose salvation has prevailed, build the walls and the bulwarks;
²open the gates, that the righteous peoples who keep faith and that the truth may enter in.
³You will keep us in perfect peace, for in you we have trusted, Yahvah, forever and ever.
⁴For Yahvah God is an everlasting strength;
⁵he brings down those who live on high; the lofty city, he will lay it low, even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.
⁶The foot will tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.

⁷The way of the humble is straight; the path of the righteous is straight and level.
⁸Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahvah, we have waited for you; the desire of our soul is for your name, and remembrance of you.
⁹My soul has desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit inside me I will seek you early; for when your judgments are in the land, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
¹⁰The wicked has gone far off that he may not learn righteousness; chastisement in the land brings correction; the wicked will not look at the majesty of Yahvah.
¹¹Yahvah, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they will see and be ashamed for the zeal of the people; yes, let the fire of the oven devour your enemies.
¹²Yahvah, you will give us peace; for you have also worked all our works for us.
¹³Yahvah our god, other masters besides you have lorded over us; but your name alone we will mention;
¹⁴for they do not raise the dead, they do not raise the mighty men; therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
¹⁵You have increased the nation, Yahvah, you have increased the nation; you have removed it far away and scattered it to all the ends of the land.

¹⁶Yahvah, in distress they have sought you, and in siege they muttered the incantation invoking your discipline.
¹⁷Like a pregnant woman, who draws near the time of delivery, and is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, Yahvah.
¹⁸We have been pregnant, we have been in pain like those who brought forth wind; save us lest we perish in the land, lest the inhabitants of the world come to an end.
¹⁹Your dead men will live, their dead bodies will arise. Those who live in the dust will awake and sing, for your dew is a dew of light, and the land of the giants you will overthrow.

²⁰Come, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves as it were for a little time, until my indignation has passed away.
²¹For look, Yahvah is coming out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the land for their iniquity; and the land will also disclose her blood, and will not cover her slain any longer.

26 Psalms 5:4-6
⁴For you are not a god that has pleasure in wickedness; nor will evil live with you.
⁵The proud will not stand in your sight; you hate all workers of iniquity.
⁶You will destroy those who speak falsehood; Yahvah will reject the bloody and deceitful man.

26 Psalms 18:31-42
³¹For there is no god except Yahvah; and there is no one who is mighty like our god.
³²It is god that girds me with strength and makes my way perfect.
³³He makes my feet like deer's feet and sets me on high places.
³⁴He trains my hands to war; and he strengthens my arms like a bow of brass.
³⁵You have also given me the shield of your salvation; and your right hand has held me up; and your discipline has made me great.
³⁶You have steadied my legs under me, that my ankles may not be weakened.
³⁷I will pursue my enemies and overtake them; and I will not turn again until they are consumed.
³⁸I will strike them so that they will not be able to stand; they will fall under my feet.
³⁹For you have girded me with strength to the battle; you have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
⁴⁰You have also defeated my enemies before me, that I might silence those who hate me.
⁴¹They will cry, but there will not be anyone to save them; they will beg Yahvah, but he will not answer them.
⁴²Then I will beat them small as the dust before the wind; I will tread over them as the mire of the streets.