“We have a strong city;

he sets up salvation

as walls and bulwarks.

2  Open the gates,

that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.

3  You keep him in perfect peace

whose mind is stayed on you,

because he trusts in you.

4  ^jTrust in the Lord forever,

for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.

8  In the path of your judgments,

O Lord, we wait for you;

your name and remembrance

are the desire of our soul.

9  My soul yearns for you in the night;

my spirit within me ^learnestly seeks you.

For when your judgments are in the earth,

the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

12  O Lord, you will ordain peace for us,

for ⁿyou have indeed done for us all our works.

13  O Lord our God,

other lords besides you have ruled over us,

but your name alone we bring to remembrance.

19  ^qYour dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.

You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!

For your dew is a dew of light,

and the earth will give birth to the dead.

20  Come, my people, enter your chambers,

and shut your doors behind you;

hide yourselves for ^ra little while

until the fury has passed by.

21  ^sFor behold, the Lord is coming out from his place

to ^tpunish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity,

and ^uthe earth will disclose the blood shed on it,

and will no more cover its slain.