A Song of Trust ✠ Isaiah 26.1-12 ✠ Canticles

We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.
Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.
You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord for ever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
The way of the righteous is level;
you who are upright make smooth the path of the righteous.
In the path of your judgements, O Lord, we wait for you;
your name and renown is the desire of our soul.
My soul yearns for you in the night,
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgements are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
O Lord, you will ordain peace for us,
for indeed all that we have done you have done for us.
Trust in the Lord for ever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
(Isaiah 26.1-4,7-9,12)
Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning is now
and shall be for ever. Amen.