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1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.
2 Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
3 You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
4 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock eternal.
5 He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.
6 Feet trample it down—the feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the poor.
7 The path of the righteous is level; O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth.
8 Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.
9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
10 Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the Lord.
11 O Lord, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
12 Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.
13 O Lord, our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor.
14 They are now dead, they live no more; those departed spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.
15 You have enlarged the nation, O Lord; you have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for yourself; you have extended all the borders of the land.
16 Lord, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.
17 As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Lord.
18 We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to people of the world.
19 But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.
20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.
21 See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed upon her; she will conceal her slain no longer.
This canonical chapter is a broth of five scripts. Verses 4-6 lay a firm base for the revised chapter.
Revised Chapter 26 enrols three verses of the canonical chapter, imports thirteen and a half more verses from six chapters and uses the title, "The Lord Is The Rock Eternal."
1-2. In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts. 2 Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
Analysis: Chapter 60 is where the Lord states that the walls of Jerusalem will be called "Salvation" (v 1, Isaiah 60:18) and that its gates will stay open (v 2, Isaiah 60:11). Consequently these two verses will set well in that chapter.
Destination: Revised Chapter 60, "The City of The Lord, Zion of The Holy One of Israel."
3. You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
Analysis: This verse is part of a psalm (cf. Psalms 32:10, 84:12) or a proverb (cf. Proverbs 29:25).
Destination: Revised Chapter 25, "Psalms of Praise To God,"
First Half of 9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. 33:2 O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress. 3 You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
7-14. The path of the righteous is level; O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth. 8 Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. 9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. 10 Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the Lord. 11 O Lord, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them. 12 Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us. 13 O Lord, our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor. 14 They are now dead, they live no more; those departed spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.
Destination: Both the argument of these verses, the Lord's goodness, and the repetitive use of the pronoun "you" conform to the argument and addressing style of Revised Chapter 25, "Psalms of Praise To God." See verse 3 for the placement of the first half of verse 9. See verse 16 for the placement of the second half of verse 9. See verses 17-18 for the placement of verse 12.
15. You have enlarged the nation, O Lord; you have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for yourself; you have extended all the borders of the land.
Observation: The phrase, "You have enlarged the nation," reappears on Isaiah 9:3, "You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy."
Destination: Revised Chapter 4, "The Branch of The Lord,"
15 You have enlarged the nation, O Lord; you have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for yourself; you have extended all the borders of the land. 9:3 You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the plunder. 9:4 For as in the day of Midian's defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.
16. Lord, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.
Destination: Revised Chapter 25, "Psalms of Praise To God,"
Second Half of 9 When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. 16 Lord, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.
17-18. As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Lord. 18 We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to people of the world.gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
Analysis: These two verses duplicate the composition of verses 7-14 where Isaiah prays in first person plural for himself and for the Lord's disciples.
Note: Despondent verse 18 matches Isaiah 49:4, "I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due me is in the Lord's hand, and my reward is with my God."
Destination: Revised Chapter 25, "Psalms of Praise To God,"
12 Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us. 17 As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Lord. 18 We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to people of the world.
19. But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.
Analysis: The clause, "the earth will give birth to her dead," alludes to the resurrection of the dead on the wake of the Day of the Lord.
Destination: Revised Chapter 24, "The Day of The Lord,"
20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. 21 See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed upon her; she will conceal her slain no longer. 19 But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead. 34:4 All the stars of the heavens will be dissolved and the sky rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
20-21. Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. 21 See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed upon her; she will conceal her slain no longer.
Destination: Revised Chapter 24, "The Day of The Lord." See verse 19 for the placement of these two verses.
9. My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
Reason: The first half, "My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you," expresses Isaiah's love of God.
Destination of the first half: Revised Chapter 25, "Psalms of Praise To God,"
First Half of 9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. 33:2 O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.The second half, "When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness," is a proverb.
Destination of the second half: Revised Chapter 25, "Psalms of Praise To God." See verse 16 for the placement of this second half.
32:19. Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely,
33:4. Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts men pounce on it.
33:6. He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure.
40:11. He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.
40:29-31. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
48:21. They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and water gushed out.
Second Half of 49:9 to 49:10. They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill. 10 They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
55:6-9. Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. 8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. 9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
4 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock eternal. 5 He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust. 6 Feet trample it down—the feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the poor. 33:4 Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts men pounce on it.
32:19 Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely, 33:6 he will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure.
40:11 He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young. Second Half of 49:9 They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill. 49:10 They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water. 48:21 They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and water gushed out.
40:29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 40:30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 40:31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
55:6 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. 55:8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. 55:9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
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