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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.
Isaiah 26:1 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB 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.
  • KJV 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.
  • NKJV 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.
  • NASB 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.
  • NLT 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.

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Quick answer

In that day Judah will sing of a strong city whose walls and ramparts are God's own salvation. True security comes from the Lord, not human defenses.

Overview

The song celebrates a city made strong not by stone but by God's saving power as its walls. It contrasts with the fallen cities of the proud. The believer's lasting security rests in the salvation God provides, fully realized in the heavenly city Christ secures for His people.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Zech 2:5For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
  • Isa 60:18No 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.
  • Isa 62:11Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, “Say to Daughter Zion: See, your Savior comes! Look, His reward is with Him, and His recompense goes before Him.”
  • Eph 5:19–20Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,
  • Jer 33:11the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.
  • Isa 25:9And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
  • Ps 48:12March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,
  • Isa 27:1–2In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
  • 2 Sam 22:1–51And David sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
  • Ps 31:21Blessed be the LORD, for He has shown me His loving devotion in a city under siege.
  • Isa 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
  • Isa 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
  • Judg 5:1–31On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
  • Num 21:17Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!
  • Isa 24:21–23In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
  • Isa 12:1In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.
  • Ezra 3:11And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.
  • Exod 15:2–21The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
  • Matt 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
  • Rev 21:12–22The 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.
  • Rev 19:1–7After 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!
  • Isa 5:1I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
  • Ps 137:3–4for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

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Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 26:1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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