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God Will Give New Life to His People

13 Lord, you are our God,
    but in the past, we followed other lords.
We belonged to other masters,[a]
    but now we want people to remember only one name—yours.
14 Those dead lords will not come to life.
    Those ghosts will not rise from death.
You decided to destroy them,
    and you destroyed everything that makes us think about them.
15 Lord, you have helped the nation you love.
    You made our nation grow
    and brought honor to yourself.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:13 we followed … masters This is a wordplay. It could also be translated, “Husbands other than you married us.” One word sounds like “Baal,” the other like a title for God.
  2. Isaiah 26:15 Or “You gathered together the nation you love, the nation you drove into faraway lands.”

13 Lord our God, other lords(A) besides you have ruled over us,
    but your name(B) alone do we honor.(C)
14 They are now dead,(D) they live no more;
    their spirits(E) do not rise.
You punished them and brought them to ruin;(F)
    you wiped out all memory of them.(G)
15 You have enlarged the nation, Lord;
    you have enlarged the nation.(H)
You have gained glory for yourself;
    you have extended all the borders(I) of the land.

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