Isaiah 26:1
New International Version
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.

New Living Translation
In that day, everyone in the land of Judah will sing this song: Our city is strong! We are surrounded by the walls of God’s salvation.

English Standard Version
In 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.

Berean Standard Bible
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.

King James Bible
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

New King James Version
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.

New American Standard Bible
On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.

NASB 1995
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.

NASB 1977
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.

Legacy Standard Bible
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for salvation.

Amplified Bible
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up salvation as walls and ramparts.

Christian Standard Bible
On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city. Salvation is established as walls and ramparts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city. Salvation is established as walls and ramparts.

American Standard Version
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for 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.

English Revised Version
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city. Its walls and fortifications provide safety.

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!

International Standard Version
At that time, people will sing this song in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; God crafts victory, its walls and ramparts.

Majority Standard Bible
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.

NET Bible
At that time this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city! The LORD's deliverance, like walls and a rampart, makes it secure.

New Heart English Bible
In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city. He appoints salvation for walls and ramparts.

Webster's Bible Translation
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

World English Bible
In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
In that day this song is sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city, "" He makes salvation [for] walls and bulwark.

Young's Literal Translation
In that day sung is this song in the land of Judah: 'We have a strong city, Salvation He doth make walls and bulwark.

Smith's Literal Translation
In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: A strong city to us; he will set salvation the wall and the fortification.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
IN that day shall this canticle be sung the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.

Catholic Public Domain Version
In that day, this canticle will be sung in the land of Judah. Within it will be set the city of our strength: Zion, a savior, a wall with a bulwark.

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.

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.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: O city whose salvation has prevailed, build the walls and the bulwarks;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judea: “The city whose redemption was strong, set the walls and the bulwark of the walls!
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; Walls and bulwarks doth He appoint for salvation.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
In that day they shall sing this song in the land of Judea; Behold a strong city; and he shall make salvation its wall and bulwark.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
A Song of Trust in God's Provision
1In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts. 2Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.…

Cross References
Psalm 46:1-3
For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble. / Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas, / though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah

Psalm 125:1-2
A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever. / As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.

Revelation 21:2-4
I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. / And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. / ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”

Psalm 48:1-3
A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain. / Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King. / God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.

Zechariah 2:5
For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”

Hebrews 12:22-24
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels / in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, / to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Psalm 87:1-3
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. He has founded His city on the holy mountains. / The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. / Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah

Revelation 21:10-12
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, / shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal. / The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.

Psalm 118:15-16
Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD performs with valor! / The right hand of the LORD is exalted! The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!”

Isaiah 60:18
No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

Revelation 19:1-2
After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God! / For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”

Psalm 122:6-7
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper. / May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.”

Jeremiah 33:16
In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

Philippians 3:20-21
But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, / who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.

Ezekiel 48:35
The perimeter of the city will be 18,000 cubits, and from that day on the name of the city will be: THE LORD IS THERE.”


Treasury of Scripture

In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

this song

Isaiah 5:1
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

Isaiah 27:1,2
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea…

Exodus 15:2-21
The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him…

in the land

Ezra 3:11
And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

Psalm 137:3,4
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion…

salvation

Isaiah 60:18
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

Isaiah 62:11
Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

Psalm 31:21
Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

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Isaiah 26
1. Trust in God's Provision














In that day
This phrase often signals a prophetic vision, pointing to a future time of fulfillment. In the context of Isaiah, "that day" frequently refers to the eschatological day of the Lord, a time when God will intervene decisively in human history. The Hebrew term "bayyom hahu" suggests a specific, divinely appointed time, emphasizing God's sovereignty over history and His ultimate plan for redemption and restoration.

this song
The use of "song" here indicates a hymn of praise and thanksgiving. In ancient Israel, songs were a vital part of worship and communal memory, often recounting God's mighty acts and promises. This particular song is a celebration of God's deliverance and faithfulness. The Hebrew word "shir" implies a joyful and triumphant expression, reflecting the deep gratitude and reverence of the people.

will be sung
The future tense "will be sung" underscores the certainty of the prophecy. It is not merely a hope but a guaranteed event. Singing was a communal activity in ancient Israel, suggesting that this song will be a collective expression of joy and unity among God's people. The act of singing also signifies the transformation from mourning to joy, from despair to hope.

in the land of Judah
Judah, the southern kingdom, holds significant historical and theological importance. It is the land of the Davidic line, from which the Messiah is prophesied to come. The mention of Judah highlights God's covenant faithfulness to His people and His promises to David. It also serves as a reminder of the centrality of Jerusalem, the city of God, in His redemptive plan.

We have a strong city
The "strong city" symbolizes security, protection, and divine presence. In the ancient Near East, cities were fortified places of refuge. This imagery conveys the idea of God as a fortress and protector of His people. The strength of the city is not in its physical walls but in the presence and power of God. It reflects the ultimate safety and peace found in God's kingdom.

He sets up salvation
The phrase "sets up salvation" indicates God's active role in establishing deliverance for His people. The Hebrew word "yeshuah" for salvation is closely related to the name Yeshua (Jesus), pointing to the ultimate salvation through Christ. This salvation is not just a physical deliverance but a comprehensive restoration of relationship with God.

as walls and ramparts
Walls and ramparts were essential for the defense of ancient cities. Here, they metaphorically represent God's protection and the impenetrable security He provides. The imagery suggests that God's salvation is both a defense against external threats and a source of internal peace. It emphasizes the completeness and sufficiency of God's provision for His people.

XXVI.

(1) In that day shall this song be sung . . .--The prophet appears once more, as in Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 12:4, in the character of a psalmist, and what he writes is destined for nothing less than the worship of the new city of the heavenly kingdom.

Salvation will God appoint for walls.--Better, salvation He appoints. The walls of the heavenly city are not of stone or brick, but are themselves as a living force, saving and protecting. The same characteristic thought appears in Isaiah 60:18.

Verses 1-18. - A SONG OF THE REDEEMED IN MOUNT ZION. The prophet, having (in Isaiah 25.) poured forth his own thankfulness to God for the promise of the Church's final redemption and triumph, proceeds now to represent the Church itself in the glorified state as singing praise to God for the same. Verse 1. - In that day. In the "day of God" (2 Peter 3:12), the period of the "restitution of all things" (Acts 3:21). In the land of Judah; i.e. in the "new earth" - whose city will be the "heavenly Jerusalem," and wherein will dwell "the Israel of God" - the antitype whereof the literal "land of Judah" was the type. A strong city; literally, a city of strength. In the Revelation of St. John the new Jerusalem is represented as having "a wall great and high" (Revelation 21:12), and "twelve gates," three on each side. The intention is to convey the idea of complete security. In the present passage the city has "gates" (ver. 2), but no "walls" - walls and bulwarks being unnecessary, since the saving might of God himself would be its sure defense against every enemy.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
In that
הַה֔וּא (ha·hū)
Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

day
בַּיּ֣וֹם (bay·yō·wm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

this
הַזֶּ֖ה (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

song
הַשִּׁיר־ (haš·šîr-)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7892: A song, singing

will be sung
יוּשַׁ֥ר (yū·šar)
Verb - Hofal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7891: To sing

in the land
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

of Judah:
יְהוּדָ֑ה (yə·hū·ḏāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites

We have a strong
עָז־ (‘āz-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5794: Strong, vehement, harsh

city.
עִ֣יר (‘îr)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 5892: Excitement

Salvation
יְשׁוּעָ֥ה (yə·šū·‘āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3444: Something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity

is established
יָשִׁ֖ית (yā·šîṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7896: To put, set

as its walls
חוֹמ֥וֹת (ḥō·w·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 2346: A wall of protection

and ramparts.
וָחֵֽל׃ (wā·ḥêl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2426: An army, an intrenchment


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