November 14 Reading

Perfect Peace for Those Who Trust God

Isaiah 26:1-13 (ESV)

You Keep Him in Perfect Peace

1In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“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.

4Trust in the Lord forever,

for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.

5 For he has humbled

the inhabitants of the height,

the lofty city.

He lays it low, 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 path of the righteous is level;

you make level the way of the righteous.

8In the path of your judgments,

O Lord, we wait for you;

your name and remembrance

are the desire of our soul.

9My soul yearns for you in the night;

my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.

For when your judgments are in the earth,

the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

10 If favor is shown to the wicked,

he does not learn righteousness;

in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly

and does not see the majesty of the Lord.

11O Lord, your hand is lifted up,

but they do not see it.

Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.

Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.

12O Lord, you will ordain peace for us,

for you have indeed done for us all our works.

13O Lord our God,

other lords besides you have ruled over us,

but your name alone we bring to remembrance.