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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1At that time this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city! The LORD's deliverance, like walls and a rampart, makes it secure. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Open the gates so a righteous nation can enter--one that remains trustworthy. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You keep completely safe the people who maintain their faith, for they trust in you. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Trust in the LORD from this time forward, even in Yah, the LORD, an enduring protector! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Indeed, the LORD knocks down those who live in a high place, he brings down an elevated town; he brings it down to the ground, he throws it down to the dust. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6It is trampled underfoot by the feet of the oppressed, by the soles of the poor." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The way of the righteous is level, the path of the righteous that you make is straight. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Yes, as your judgments unfold, O LORD, we wait for you. We desire your fame and reputation to grow. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I look for you during the night, my spirit within me seeks you at dawn, for when your judgments come upon the earth, those who live in the world learn about justice. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10If the wicked are shown mercy, they do not learn about justice. Even in a land where right is rewarded, they act unjustly; they do not see the LORD's majesty revealed. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11O LORD, you are ready to act, but they don't even notice. They will see and be put to shame by your angry judgment against humankind, yes, fire will consume your enemies. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12O LORD, you make us secure, for even all we have accomplished, you have done for us. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13O LORD, our God, masters other than you have ruled us, but we praise your name alone. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You have made the nation larger, O LORD, you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, you have extended all the borders of the land. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16O LORD, in distress they looked for you; they uttered incantations because of your discipline. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver and strains and cries out because of her labor pains, so were we because of you, O LORD. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18We were pregnant, we strained, we gave birth, as it were, to wind. We cannot produce deliverance on the earth; people to populate the world are not born. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Go, my people! Enter your inner rooms! Close your doors behind you! Hide for a little while, until his angry judgment is over! |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For look, the LORD is coming out of the place where he lives, to punish the sin of those who live on the earth. The earth will display the blood shed on it; it will no longer cover up its slain. |
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