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Isaiah 26
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Stretch the Borders of Life

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.H3117H7892H7891H776H3063H5797H5892H3444H7896H2346H2426 2Throw wide the gates so good and true people can enter.H6605H8179H6662H1471H8104H529H935 3People with their minds set on you, you keep completely whole, Steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don't quit.H5341H7965H7965H3336H5564H982 4Depend on GOD and keep at it because in the LORD GOD you have a sure thing.H982H3068H5703H3050H3068H5769H6697 5Those who lived high and mighty he knocked off their high horse. He used the city built on the hill as fill for the marshes.H7817H3427H4791H7682H7151H8213H8213H776H5060H6083 6All the exploited and outcast peoples build their lives on the reclaimed land.H7272H7429H7272H6041H6471H1800 7The path of right-living people is level. The Leveler evens the road for the right-living.H734H6662H4339H3477H6424H4570H6662 8We'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.H734H4941H3068H6960H8378H5315H8034H2143 9Through 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.H5315H183H3915H7307H7130H7836H4941H776H3427H8398H3925H6664 10If 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.H2603H7563H1077H3925H6664H776H5229H5765H1077H7200H1348H3068 11You 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.H3068H3027H7311H2372H2372H954H7068H5971H784H6862H398 12GOD, order a peaceful and whole life for us because everything we've done, you've done for us.H3068H8239H7965H6466H4639 13O GOD, our God, we've had other masters rule us, but you're the only Master we've ever known.H3068H430H113H2108H1166H2142H8034 14The dead don't talk, ghosts don't walk, Because you've said, "Enough—that's all for you," and wiped them off the books.H4191H2421H7496H6965H6485H8045H2143H6 15But 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!H3254H1471H3068H3254H1471H3513H7368H7099H776 16O GOD, they begged you for help when they were in trouble, when your discipline was so heavy they could barely whisper a prayer.H3068H6862H6485H6694H3908H4148 17Like 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.H3644H2030H7126H3205H2342H2199H2256H6440H3068 18We 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.H2029H2342H3644H3205H7307H6213H3444H776H1077H3427H8398H5307 19But 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.H4191H2421H5038H6965H6974H7442H7931H6083H2919H2919H219H776H5307H7496 20Come, my people, go home and shut yourselves in. Go into seclusion for a while until the punishing wrath is past,H3212H5971H935H2315H5462H1817H2247H4592H7281H2195H5674 21Because 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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