1 A song inciting to confidence in God, 5 for his judgements, 12 and for his favor to his people. 20 An exhortation to wait on God.

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

² Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.

³ You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.

⁴ Trust you in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: ¶

⁵ For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings 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: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just.

⁸ Yes, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance of you.

⁹ With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

¹⁰ Let favor be showed 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 your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yes, the fire of your enemies shall devour them. ¶

¹² LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have worked all our works in us.

¹³ O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name.

¹⁴ They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

¹⁵ You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far to all the ends of the earth.

¹⁶ LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

¹⁷ Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your 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 worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

¹⁹ Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. ¶

²⁰ Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be over.

²¹ For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.