7The path of the just is level; You, most upright One, smooth the path of the just. 8Yes, in obeying Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You; Your name, and renown is the desire of our soul. 9My soul yearns for You in the night; my spirit will I seek You early in the morning; for when Your judgments are in the earth, its inhabitants learn righteousness. 10But even when kindness is shown to the wicked, they still will not learn righteousness; even in the land of uprightness they will deal corruptly, and will not regard the majesty of the LORD. 11LORD, when Your hand is raised, they will not see it; but they shall see, and be ashamed, when the fire reserved for Your enemies devours them. 12LORD, You will establish peace for us; for all our accomplishments You have enabled for us. 13O LORD our God, other rulers beside You have ruled over us; but only Your name will we honor. 14Those other rulers are now dead; they are deceased and shall never rise; for You have destroyed them, and erased all memory of them. 15You have increased the nation, O LORD; You have extended its borders to the ends of the earth; and so we give You glory; 16LORD, they have come to You in trouble; but even when Your chastening was upon them, they barely whispered out a prayer. 17Like a woman with child, whose time of delivery draws near, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in Your sight, O LORD. 18We were with child, we have been in pain, but what we have brought forth is wind; we have not brought any salvation to the earth, nor have the we brought new life into this fallen world. 19But Your dead shall live, LORD; their dead bodies shall rise. Awake and sing for joy, you that dwell in dust; for your dew is like the dew of morning, and the earth give birth to her dead.

20Come, my people, enter your rooms, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a brief moment, until His indignation is past. 21For, behold, the LORD is coming from heaven to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their sins; the earth also shall reveal its bloodshed, and shall no more conceal her slain.

Isaiah 27