Judah’s Song of Victory

26On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city;
   he sets up victory
   like walls and bulwarks.
²Open the gates,
   so that the righteous nation that keeps faith
   may enter in.
³Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace—
   in peace because they trust in you.
⁴Trust in the Lord for ever,
   for in the Lord God ^*
   you have an everlasting rock.
⁵For he has brought low
   the inhabitants of the height;
   the lofty city he lays low.
He lays it low to the ground,
   casts it to the dust.
⁶The foot tramples it,
   the feet of the poor,
   the steps of the needy.

⁷The way of the righteous is level;
   O Just One, you make smooth the path of the righteous.
⁸In the path of your judgements,
   O Lord, we wait for you;
your name and your renown
   are the soul’s desire.
⁹My soul yearns for you in the night,
   my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgements are in the earth,
   the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.