KJV King James Version
Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
WEB World English Bible
Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast forth the dead.
ASV American Standard Version
Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thy dead live—My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs is thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 26
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 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.
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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יִֽחְי֣וּH2421 · cha.yahto liveמֵתֶ֔יךָH4191 · mutto dieנְבֵלָתִ֖יH5038 · ne.ve.lahcarcassיְקוּמ֑וּןH6965 · qa.may(Leb)-kamaiהָקִ֨יצוּH6974 · qutsto awakeוְרַנְּנ֜וּH7442 · runto overcomeשֹׁכְנֵ֣יH7931 · sha.khanto dwellעָפָ֗רH6083 · a.phardustכִּ֣יH3588 · kiforטַ֤לH2919 · taldewאוֹרֹת֙H219 · o.rahlightטַלֶּ֔ךָH2919 · taldewוָאָ֖רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetרְפָאִ֥יםH7496 · ra.pahshadeתַּפִּֽיל׃ סH5307 · na.phalto fall: fall
Cross-references
Daniel 12:2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.Ezekiel 37:1-14The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which [was] full of bones,Matthew 27:52And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,Ephesians 5:14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.Hosea 13:14I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.Psalm 71:20[Thou], which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.Revelation 20:12-13And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.Hosea 6:2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.1 Thessalonians 4:14-15For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].Philippians 3:21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.John 5:28-29Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,John 11:25-26Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:Isaiah 60:1-2Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.1 Corinthians 15:22-23For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.Revelation 20:5-6But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.Zechariah 8:12For the seed [shall be] prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these [things].1 Corinthians 15:20But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.
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