A Song of Salvation

Isaiah 26:20

In 11 translations

BSB: Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
KJV: ¶ Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
WEB: Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
ASV: Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
LSV: Come, My people, enter into your inner chambers, || And shut your doors behind you, || Hide yourself shortly [for] a moment until the indignation passes over.
YLT: Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over.
DBY: Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself just for a little moment, until the indignation be past.
DRC: Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.
GNV: Come, my people: enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doores after thee: hide thy selfe for a very litle while, vntill the indignation passe ouer.
JPS: Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
LXXE: Go, my people, enter into thy closets, shut thy door, hide thyself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord have passed away.

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Written (Ketiv): דְּלָתֶיךָ (“doors your”). Read aloud (Qere): דְּלָתְךָ֖ (“door your”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

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Leningrad Codex reads דְּלָתְיךָ֖; read aloud (Qere) reads דְּלָתְךָ֖ (“door your”).
Leningrad Codex reads יַעֲבָור־; read aloud (Qere) reads יַעֲבָר (“it has passed by”).
Written (Ketiv): יַעֲבוֹר. Read aloud (Qere): יַעֲבָר (“it has passed by”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

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Original-language editions

WLC: לֵ֤ךְ עַמִּי֙ בֹּ֣א בַחֲדָרֶ֔יךָ וּֽסְגֹ֥ר דלתיך בַּעֲדֶ֑ךָ חֲבִ֥י כִמְעַט־רֶ֖גַע עַד־יעבור־זָֽעַם׃Read aloud as (qere): דְּלָתְךָ֖Read aloud as (qere): יַעֲבָר
LXX-Br: Βάδιζε λαός μου, εἴσελθε εἰς τὰ ταμεῖά σου, ἀπόκλεισον τὴν θύραν σου, ἀποκρύβηθι μικρὸν ὅσον ὅσον, ἕως ἂν παρέλθῃ ἡ ὀργὴ Κυρίου.

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Overpass Chamber Moment Houses Judgments Anger of God, The Intercession Salvation Persecution Faith

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Cross-references most cited first

Psalms 30:5For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psalms 27:5For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
Isaiah 54:7–8“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back. In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD…
Matthew 6:6But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Psalms 91:4He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.
Proverbs 18:10The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
2 Corinthians 4:17For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that is far beyond comparison.
Psalms 32:7You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
Isaiah 10:25For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
Isaiah 51:4Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Exodus 12:22–23Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning. When the LORD passes through to…
Psalms 31:20You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
Ezekiel 11:16Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries…
Psalms 143:9Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD; I flee to You for refuge.

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