Thursday, July 16, 2026

⁷The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

⁸Yes, in the way of your judgments, LORD, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

⁹With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

¹²LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

¹⁶LORD, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

¹⁷Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, LORD.

¹⁸We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

¹⁹Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

¹³But you, LORD, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.

¹⁴You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

¹⁵For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

¹⁶So the nations will fear the LORD's name, all the kings of the earth your glory.

¹⁷For the LORD has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

¹⁸He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

¹⁹This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise the LORD,

²⁰for he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, the LORD saw the earth,

²¹to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death,

²⁸"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

²⁹Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

³⁰For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."