1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah. We have a strong city; Salvation shall God appoint instead of walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous people which keep the truth may enter in.
3 And thou, which art the doer and hast the matter in hand: shall provide for peace, even the peace that men hope for in thee.
4 Hope still in the LORD, for in the LORD God is everlasting strength.
5 For why? It is he, that bringeth low the high minded citizens, and casteth down the proud cities. He casteth them to the ground, yea even in to the mire,
6 that they may be trodden under the feet of the simple, and with the steps of the poor.
7 The path of equity wilt thou grant unto the just, O thou most righteous; thou shalt order the path of him that is righteous.
8 Therefore, LORD, we have a respect unto the way of thy judgments; thy name and thy remembrance rejoice the soul.
9 My soul lusteth after thee all the night long, and my mind hasteth freely to thee. For as soon as thy judgment is known to the world, then the inhabiters of the earth learn righteousness.
10 But the ungodly, though he have received grace, yet learneth he not righteousness: but in that place where he is punished, he offendeth, and feareth not the glory of the LORD.
11 LORD, when thine hand is lift up to strike, they see it not: but they shall see it, and be confounded, when thou shalt devour them with the wrath of the people, and with the fire of thine enemies.
12 But unto us, O LORD, provide for peace: for thou workest in us all our works.
13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee hath subdued us, but we will be mindful only of thee and of thy name.
14 The malicious tyrants when they die, are neither in life nor in the resurrection, for thou visitest them and rootest them out, and destroyest all the memorial of them.
15 Again, thou increasest the people, O LORD, thou increasest the people. Thou shalt be praised and magnified in all the ends of the world.
16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out their prayer while thy chastening was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, when her travail cometh upon her, is sorry and crieth in her pains: Even so are we, O LORD, in thy sight.
18 We have been with child, and suffered pain as though we had brought forth wind. For there is no salvation in the earth, neither do the inhabiters of the world submit them selves.
19 But as for thy dead men and ours, that be departed, they are in life and resurrection. They lie in the earth, they wake, and have joy: for thy dew is a dew of life and light. But the place of the malicious Tyrants is fallen away.
20 So go now my people into thy chamber, and shut the door to thee, and suffer now the twinkling of an eye, till the wrath be overpast.
21 For behold, the LORD will go out of his habitation, and visit the wickedness of them that dwell upon earth. The earth also shall disclose her own blood, and shall no more hide those that are slain in her.