Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Isaias 26:1-7 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. 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.

2. Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth, enter in.

3. The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.

4. You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty for ever.

5. For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull it down even to the dust.

6. The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.

7. The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in.