A Song of Salvation

In that day this song will be sung

in the land of Judah:

"We have a strong city;

God will appoint salvation for walls

and bulwarks.

Open the gates,

That the righteous nation which

keeps the truth may enter in.

You will keep him in perfect peace,

Whose mind is stayed on You,

Because he trust in You.

Trust in the LORD forever,

For in YAH, the LORD , is everything

strength.

For He brings down those who

dwell on high,

The lofty city;

He lays it low,

He lays it low to the ground,

He brings it down to the dust.

The foot shall tread it down-

The feet of the poor

And the steps of the needy."

The way of the just is uprightness;

O Most Upright,

You weight the path of the just.

Yes, in the way of Your judgments.

O LORD, we have waited for You;

The desire of our soul is for Your

name

And for the remembrance of You.

With my soul I have desired You in

the night,

Yes, by my spirit within me I will

seek You early;

For when Your judgments are in 

the earth,

The inhabitants of the world will

learn righteousness.

Let grace be shown to the wicked,

Yet he will not learn righteousness;

In the land of uprightness he will

deal unjustly,

And will not behold the majesty of

the LORD.

LORD, when Your hand is lifted up,

they will not see.

But they will see and be ashamed

For their envy of people;

Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall

devour them.

LORD, You will establish peace for

us,

For You have also done all our

works in us.

O LORD our God, other masters

besides You

Have had dominion over us;

But by You only we make mention

of Your name.

They are dead, they will not live;

They are deceased, they will not

rise.

Therefore You have punished and 

destroyed them,

And made all their memory to

perish.

You have increased the nation,

O LORD,

You have increased the nation;

You are glorified;

You have expanded all the borders

of the land.

LORD, in trouble they have visited

You,

They poured out a prayer when

Your chastening was upon them.

As a woman with child

Is in a pain and cries out in her 

pangs,

When she draws near the time of

her delivery,

So have we been in Your sight,

O LORD.

We have been with child, we have 

been in pain;

We have m as it were , brought forth

wind;

We have not accomplished any

deliverance in the earth,

Nor have the inhabitants of the

world fallen.

Your dead shall live;

Together with my dead body they

shall arise.

Awake and sing, you who dwell in

dust;

For your dew is like the dew of

herbs,

And the earth shall cast out the

dead.