An exhortation to wait on God.

¹⁾In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

²⁾Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

³⁾Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:; because he trusteth in thee.

⁴⁾Trust ye in the LORDLord for ever:forever; for in the LORDLord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:.

⁵⁾For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

⁶⁾The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

⁷⁾The way of the just is uprightness:; thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

⁸⁾Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORDLord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

⁹⁾With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early:; for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

¹⁰⁾Let favourfavor be shewedshowed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness:; in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORDLord.

¹¹⁾LORDLord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see:; but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

¹²⁾LORDLord, thou wilt ordain peace for us:; for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.

¹³⁾O LORDLord our God, other lords besidebesides thee have had dominion over us:; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

¹⁴⁾They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise:; therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

¹⁵⁾Thou hast increased the nation, O LORDLord, thou hast increased the nation:; thou art glorified:; thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

¹⁶⁾LORDLord, in trouble have they visited thee,; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

¹⁷⁾Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORDLord.

¹⁸⁾We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

¹⁹⁾Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

²⁰⁾Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee:; hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

²¹⁾For, behold, the LORDLord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.