Isaiah 26:1
Good News Translation
A day is coming when the people will sing this song in the land of Judah: Our city is strong! God himself defends its walls!

New Revised Standard Version
On 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.

Contemporary English Version
The time is coming when the people of Judah will sing this song: "Our city is protected. The LORD is our fortress, and he gives us victory.

New American Bible
On that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: “A strong city have we; he sets up victory as our walls and ramparts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.

this song

Isaiah 5:1 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place.

Isaiah 27:1,2 In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea. . . .

Exodus 15:2-21 The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him. . . .

Numbers 21:17 Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung thereto:

Judges 5:1 In that day Debbora and Barac, son of Abinoem, sung, and said:

2 Samuel 22:1 And David spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

Jeremiah 33:11 The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say: Give ye glory to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring their vows into the house of the Lord: for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at the first, saith the Lord.

Ephesians 5:19,20 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord: . . .

Revelation 19:1-7 After these things, I heard as it were the voice of much people in heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation and glory and power is to our God. . . .

in the land

Ezra 3:11 And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.

Psalm 137:3,4 For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion. . . .

salvation

Isaiah 60:18 Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and praise thy gates.

Isaiah 62:11 Behold the Lord hath made it to be heard in the ends of the earth, tell the daughter of Sion: Behold thy Saviour cometh: behold his reward is with him, and his work before him.

Psalm 31:21 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.

Psalm 48:12 Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell ye in her towers.

Zechariah 2:5 And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about: and I will be in glory in the midst thereof.

Matthew 16:18 And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Revelation 21:12-22 And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. . . .

Context
A Song of Trust in God's Provision
1In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.2Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth, enter in.…
Cross References
Isaiah 4:2
In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel.

Isaiah 12:1
And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.

Isaiah 14:31
Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia is thrown down: for a smoke shall come from the north, and there is none that shall escape his troop.

Isaiah 31:5
As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and saving.

Isaiah 31:9
And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his princes fleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it, whose fire is in Sion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 33:5
The Lord is magnified, for he hath dwelt on high: he hath filled Sion with judgment and justice.

Isaiah 33:6
And there shall be faith in thy times: riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

Isaiah 56:5
I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a place, and a name better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name which shall never perish.

Isaiah 60:18
Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and praise thy gates.

Isaiah 62:10
Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people, make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the standard to the people.

Ezekiel 40:5
And behold there was a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits and a handbreadth: and he measured the breadth of the building one reed, and the height one reed.

Zechariah 2:5
And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about: and I will be in glory in the midst thereof.

Isaiah 25:12
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