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26 <1> At that time people will sing this song in Judah:
We have a strong city
with strong walls and defenses.
But the Lord gives us our salvation.[250]
<2> Open the gates
and the good people will enter.
They are the ones who obey God's good teachings.
<3> Lord, you give true peace
to people who depend on you,
to those who trust in you.
<4> So trust the Lord always,
because in the Lord Yah,[251]
you have a place of safety forever.
<5> But the Lord will destroy the proud city
and punish those who live there.
He will throw that high city down to the ground.
It will fall into the dust.
<6> Then poor and humble people will walk on those ruins.
<7> Honesty is the path good people follow.
They follow the path that is straight and true.
And God, you make that way smooth
and easy to follow.
<8> But Lord, we are waiting for your way of justice.
We want to honor you and your name.
<9> At night my soul longs to be with you,
and the spirit in me wants to be with you
at the dawn of every new day.
When your way of justice comes to the world,
people will learn the right way of living.
<10> Evil people will not learn to do good
even if you only show them kindness.
They do bad things
even if they live in a good world.
They might never see
the Lord's greatness.
<11> Lord, raise your arm to punish them.
Surely they will see it, will they not?
Lord, show the evil people the strong love[252]
that you have for your people.
Surely the evil people will be ashamed.
Surely the fire will burn your enemies.
<12> Lord, you have succeeded in doing
everything we tried to do,
so give us peace.
<13> Lord, you are our God,
but in the past, we followed other lords.
We belonged to other masters,[253]
but now we want people to remember only one name-yours.
<14> Those dead lords will not come to life.
Those ghosts will not rise from death.
You decided to destroy them,
and you destroyed everything that makes us think about them.
<15> You helped the nation you love.
You stopped other people from defeating that nation.[254]
<16> Lord, people remember you
when they are in trouble.
They say quiet prayers to you
when you punish them.
<17> Lord, when we are not with you,
we are like a woman giving birth to a baby.
She cries with birth pains.
<18> In the same way, we have pain.
We give birth, but only to wind.
We don't make new people for the world.
We don't bring salvation to the land.
<19> [But the Lord says,]
"Your people have died,
but they will live again.
The bodies of my people
will rise from death.
Dead people in the ground,
stand and be happy!
The dew covering you is like
the dew sparkling in the light of a new day.
It shows a new time is coming when the earth
will give up the dead who are in it."
<20> My people, go into your rooms,
and lock your doors.
Hide in there for a short time
until the Lord's anger is finished.
<21> Look! The Lord is coming out from his place[255]
to judge the people of the world for the bad things they have done.
The earth will reveal the blood
that has been spilled on it.
It will no longer hide the proof
of those murders.
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