1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for ^awalls and bulwarks.

2 Open ye the ^agates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect ^apeace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord ^aJehovah is ^beverlasting ^cstrength:

5 ¶ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the 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 uprightness: thou, most ^aupright, dost weigh the path of the just.

8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we ^awaited for thee; 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; yea, with my spirit within me will I ^aseek thee ^bearly: for when thy ^cjudgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

11 Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but ^athey shall see, and be ^bashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

12 ¶ Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our ^aworks in us.

13 O Lord our God, other ^alords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

14 ^aThey are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

15 Thou hast ^aincreased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst ^bremoved it far unto all the ends of the earth.

16 Lord, in ^atrouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy ^bchastening was upon them.

17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.

18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world ^afallen.

19 Thy dead men shall ^alive, together with ^bmy dead body shall they ^carise. 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 about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, ^auntil the indignation be overpast.

21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her ^ablood, and shall no more cover her slain.