{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/isaiah/26","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T00:21:30.730Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":26,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":25,"nextChapter":27,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Trust you in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Yes, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance of you."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Let favor be showed 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 LORD."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yes, the fire of your enemies shall devour them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have worked all our works in us."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far to all the ends of the earth."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be over."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For, behold, the LORD comes 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."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 26 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Isaiah 26](https://primebible.com/akjv/isaiah/26)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/isaiah/26 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}