| 1. On that day, this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: "The city that was our strength-salvation shall He place [for] walls and a bulwark. |
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| 2. Open the gates, so that a righteous nation, awaiting the realization [of God's promise], may enter. |
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| 3. The creature that relied, You shall guard, [that there be] peace, peace, for they trusted in You. |
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| 4. Trust in the Lord forever, for in Yah the Lord, is the Rock of eternity. |
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| 5. For He humbled the inhabitants of the high places, the fortified city; He brings it low, he brings it low even to the earth, he makes it reach even to the dust. |
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| 6. A foot shall trample it, the feet of a poor man, the soles of the impoverished. |
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| 7. The way of the righteous that is straight-O Upright One, the path of the righteous, You shall weigh. |
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| 8. Even [for] the way of Your judgments, O Lord, have we hoped for You; for Your Name and for Your remembrance was the desire of [our] soul. |
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| 9. [With] my soul I longed for you at night; even [with] my spirit within me I beseeched You, for when Your judgments [come] to the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn justification. |
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| 10. Shall the wicked be favored-who did not learn righteousness? In the land of uprightness he deals unjustly, and he does not see the pride of the Lord. |
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| 11. O Lord, Your hand has been taken away that they not see; let them see and be ashamed. The envy of a people, even the fire that shall consume Your enemies. |
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| 12. O Lord, You shall prepare peace for us, for also the recompense for all our deeds have You dealt to us. |
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| 13. O Lord, our God, masters other than You have possessed us. Only concerning You will we mention Your name. |
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| 14. The dead shall not live, slackers shall not rise; therefore, You visited [upon them] and You destroyed them; You have put an end to any memory of them. |
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| 15. You have added to the nation, O Lord; You have added to the nation and have been honored; You have rejected all the ends of the earth. |
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| 16. O Lord, in their straits they remembered You; they pour out prayer when Your chastening is upon them. |
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| 17. As a pregnant woman comes near to give birth, she shudders, she screams in her pangs, so were we because of You, O Lord. |
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| 18. We conceived, we shuddered, as though we bore wind; we wreak no salvations [in] the land, neither do the inhabitants of the world fall. |
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| 19. May Your dead live, 'My corpses shall rise; awaken and sing, you who dwell in the dust, for a dew of lights is your dew, and [to the] earth You shall cast the slackers. |
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| 20. God, My people, come into your chambers and close your door about you; hide for but a moment, until the wrath passes. |
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| 21. For behold the Lord comes forth from His place to visit the iniquity of the dweller of the land upon him: and the land shall reveal its blood and it shall no longer conceal its slain ones. |
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