Verse 2

Isaiah 26:2

Literal Standard Version

2 Open the gates, || That a righteous nation may enter, || Preserving steadfastness.

Original Language Text

hebrew

פִּתְח֖וּ שְׁעָרִ֑ים וְ/יָבֹ֥א גוֹי צַדִּ֖יק שֹׁמֵ֥ר אֱמֻנִֽים

English Translation

Open the gates, and let the righteous nation enter, the nation that keeps faith.

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Chapter 26 Context

1 In that day this song is sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city, || He makes salvation fo... Focus ↗

2 Open the gates, || That a righteous nation may enter, || Preserving steadfastness.

3 You keep him in peace whose imagination is stayed—peace! For he is confident in You. Focus ↗

4 Trust in YHWH forever, || For in YAH—YHWH is a rock of ages, Focus ↗

5 For He bowed down the dwellers on high, || A city set on high He makes low, || He makes it low to th... Focus ↗

6 A foot treads it down, || Feet of the poor—steps of the weak. Focus ↗

7 The path for the righteous is uprightness, || O upright One, || You ponder the path of the righteous... Focus ↗

8 Also, in the path of Your judgments, || O YHWH, we have waited for You, || To Your Name and to Your... Focus ↗

9 I desired You in the night with my soul, || Also, I seek You earnestly with my spirit within me, ||... Focus ↗

10 The wicked finds favor, || He has not learned righteousness, || He deals perversely in a land of str... Focus ↗

11 O YHWH, Your hand is high—they do not see, || They see the zeal of the people, and are ashamed, || A... Focus ↗

12 O YHWH, You appoint peace to us, || For You have also worked all our works for us. Focus ↗

13 O our God (Elohim) YHWH, lords have ruled us besides You, || Only, by You we make mention of Your Na... Focus ↗

14 Dead—they do not live, || Rephaim, they do not rise, || Therefore You have inspected and destroy the... Focus ↗

15 You have added to the nation, O YHWH, || You have added to the nation, || You have been honored, ||... Focus ↗

16 O YHWH, in distress they missed You, || They have poured out a whisper, || Your discipline is on the... Focus ↗

17 When a pregnant woman comes near to the birth, || She is pained—she cries in her pangs, || So we hav... Focus ↗

18 We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth, as it were, wind, || We do not work s... Focus ↗

19 Your dead live—My dead body, they rise. Awake and sing, you dwellers in the dust, || For the dew of... Focus ↗

20 Come, My people, enter into your inner chambers, || And shut your doors behind you, || Hide yourself... Focus ↗

21 For behold, YHWH is coming out of His place, || To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the eart... Focus ↗

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