A song of the faithful, wherein is declared, in what consisteth the salvation of the Church, and wherein they ought to trust.
1.In that day shall athis song be sung in the land of Judáh, We have a strong city: bsalvation shall God set for walls and bulwarks.
2.cOpen ye the gates that the righteous nation, which kepeth the trueth, may enter in.
3.By an assured dpurpose wilt thou preserve perfect peace, because they trusted in thee.
4.Trust in the Lord for ever for in the Lord God is strength for ever more.
5.For he will bring down them that dwell on high, ethe high city he will abase, even unto the ground will he cast it down and bring it unto dust.
6.The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the fpoor, and the steps of the needy.
7.The way of the just is righteousness: thou wilt make equal the righteous path of the just.
8.Also we, ô Lord, have waited for thee in the way of thy gjudgements the desire of our soul is to thy Name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9.With my soul have I desired thee in the night, and with my spirit within me will I seek thee in the morning: for seeing thy judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn hrighteousness.
10.Let mercy ibe shewed to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he do wickedly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
11.O Lord, they will not behold thine high hand but they shall see it, and be confounded with kthe zeal of the people, and the fire of thine lenemies shall devour them.
12.Lord, unto us thou wilt ordain peace: for thou also hast wrought all our works for us.
13.O Lord our God, other mlords beside thee have ruled us, but we will remember thee only, and thy Name.
14.The ndead shall not live, neither shall the dead arise, because thou hast visited & scattered them, & destroyed all their memory.
15.Thou hast increased othe nation, ô Lord: thou hast increased the nation: thou art made glorious: thou hast enlarged all the coasts of the earth.
16.Lord, in trouble have they pvisited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
17.Like as a woman with child, that draweth near to the travail, is in sorrow, and cryeth in her pains, so have we been in thy qsight, ô Lord.
18.We have conceived, we have born in pain, as though we should have brought forth rwind, there was no help in the earth, neither did the inhabitants of sthe world fall.
19.¶ tThy dead men shall live: even with my body shall they rise. Awake, and sing, ye that dwell in dust for thy udew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20.Come, my people: xenter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors after thee: hide thy self for a very little while, until the indignation pass over.
21.For lo, the Lord cometh out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them: and the earth shall disclose her yblood, and shall no more hide her slain.
This song was made to comfort the faithful, when their captivity should come, assuring them also of their deliverance, for the which they should sing this song.
He comforts the faithful in their afflictions showing them that even in death they shall have life, and that they should most certainly rise to glory the contrary should come to the wicked, as verse 14.
As herbs dead in winter, flourish again by the rain in the spring time so they that be in the dust, shall rise up to joy when they feel the dew of God’s grace.