1In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.

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Isaiah 60:18, Isaiah 60:18, Isaiah 62:11, Isaiah 62:11, Zechariah 2:5

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

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Revelation 5:9, Revelation 5:9, 1 Peter 2:9, Psalms 118:20, 1 Peter 2:9

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

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Philippians 4:7, Philippians 4:7, John 16:33, John 16:33, John 14:27

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

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Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 12:2, Psalms 62:8, Psalms 62:8, Psalms 55:22

5For 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.

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Revelation 18:2, Job 40:11, Job 40:13, Jeremiah 51:37, Revelation 18:2

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

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Romans 16:20, Joshua 10:24, Luke 10:19, Romans 16:20, Joshua 10:24

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

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Ephesians 2:10, Ephesians 2:10, 1 John 3:7, Isaiah 42:16, 2 Corinthians 1:12

8And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.

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James 5:7, James 5:11, Psalms 37:3, Psalms 37:7, James 5:7

9My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

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Matthew 6:33, Matthew 6:33, Psalms 119:62, Psalms 63:1, Song of Solomon 3:1

10Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.

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John 5:37, John 5:38, Hosea 11:7, John 5:37, John 5:38

11Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.

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Hebrews 10:27, Hebrews 10:27, Isaiah 5:24, Micah 5:9, Isaiah 5:24

12Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our works for us.

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Ephesians 2:10, Ephesians 2:10, Psalms 57:2, Psalms 57:2, Psalms 29:11

13O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us, only in thee let us remember thy name.

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Isaiah 63:7, Romans 6:22, Isaiah 2:8, Isaiah 63:7, Romans 6:22

14Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.

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Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:3, Proverbs 10:7, Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:3

15Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been favourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou hast removed all the ends of the earth far off.

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Isaiah 9:3, Isaiah 9:3, Ezekiel 36:24, John 13:31, John 13:32

16Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.

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Hosea 5:15, Hosea 5:15, Psalms 50:15, Psalms 50:15, 1 Samuel 1:15

17As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in thy presence, O Lord.

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Isaiah 13:8, John 16:21, Isaiah 13:8, John 16:21, Isaiah 21:3

18We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.

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Hosea 13:13, Psalms 17:14, Hosea 13:13, Psalms 17:14, Isaiah 37:3

19Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.

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Daniel 12:2, Daniel 12:2, Ezekiel 37:1, Ezekiel 37:14, Ezekiel 37:1

20Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.

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Psalms 30:5, Psalms 30:5, Psalms 27:5, Psalms 27:5, Isaiah 54:7

21For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

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Isaiah 18:4, Isaiah 18:4, Isaiah 13:11, Job 16:18, Revelation 6:9