26At that time, this song will be sung in the country of Judah: We have a strong city, Salvation City, built and fortified with salvation.H3117H7892H7891H776H3063H5797H5892H3444H7896H2346H24262Throw wide the gates so good and true people can enter.H6605H8179H6662H1471H8104H529H9353People with their minds set on you, you keep completely whole, Steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don't quit.H5341H7965H7965H3336H5564H9824Depend on GOD and keep at it because in the LORD GOD you have a sure thing.H982H3068H5703H3050H3068H5769H66975Those who lived high and mighty he knocked off their high horse. He used the city built on the hill as fill for the marshes.H7817H3427H4791H7682H7151H8213H8213H776H5060H60836All the exploited and outcast peoples build their lives on the reclaimed land.H7272H7429H7272H6041H6471H18007The path of right-living people is level. The Leveler evens the road for the right-living.H734H6662H4339H3477H6424H4570H66628We're in no hurry, GOD. We're content to linger in the path sign-posted with your decisions. Who you are and what you've done are all we'll ever want.H734H4941H3068H6960H8378H5315H8034H21439Through the night my soul longs for you. Deep from within me my spirit reaches out to you. When your decisions are on public display, everyone learns how to live right.H5315H183H3915H7307H7130H7836H4941H776H3427H8398H3925H666410If the wicked are shown grace, they don't seem to get it. In the land of right living, they persist in wrong living, blind to the splendor of GOD.H2603H7563H1077H3925H6664H776H5229H5765H1077H7200H1348H306811You hold your hand up high, GOD, but they don't see it. Open their eyes to what you do, to see your zealous love for your people. Shame them. Light a fire under them. Get the attention of these enemies of yours.H3068H3027H7311H2372H2372H954H7068H5971H784H6862H39812GOD, order a peaceful and whole life for us because everything we've done, you've done for us.H3068H8239H7965H6466H463913O GOD, our God, we've had other masters rule us, but you're the only Master we've ever known.H3068H430H113H2108H1166H2142H803414The dead don't talk, ghosts don't walk, Because you've said, "Enough—that's all for you," and wiped them off the books.H4191H2421H7496H6965H6485H8045H2143H615But the living you make larger than life. The more life you give, the more glory you display, and stretch the borders to accommodate more living!H3254H1471H3068H3254H1471H3513H7368H7099H77616O GOD, they begged you for help when they were in trouble, when your discipline was so heavy they could barely whisper a prayer.H3068H6862H6485H6694H3908H414817Like a woman having a baby, writhing in distress, screaming her pain as the baby is being born, That's how we were because of you, O GOD.H3644H2030H7126H3205H2342H2199H2256H6440H306818We were pregnant full-term. We writhed in labor but bore no baby. We gave birth to wind. Nothing came of our labor. We produced nothing living. We couldn't save the world.H2029H2342H3644H3205H7307H6213H3444H776H1077H3427H8398H530719But friends, your dead will live, your corpses will get to their feet. All you dead and buried, wake up! Sing! Your dew is morning dew catching the first rays of sun, The earth bursting with life, giving birth to the dead.H4191H2421H5038H6965H6974H7442H7931H6083H2919H2919H219H776H5307H749620Come, my people, go home and shut yourselves in. Go into seclusion for a while until the punishing wrath is past,H3212H5971H935H2315H5462H1817H2247H4592H7281H2195H567421Because GOD is sure to come from his place to punish the wrong of the people on earth. Earth itself will point out the bloodstains; it will show where the murdered have been hidden away.H3068H3318H4725H6485H3427H776H5771H776H1540H1818H3680H2026
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