Isaiah 26:19

Your dead will live; their dead bodies will arise. Awake and sing for joy, you who live in the dust; 1 for your dew is the dew of light, and the earth will bring forth its dead. 1

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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.

In Context

18We have been pregnant, we have been in labor, but it is as if we have only given birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth, 1 and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen. 1

20Go, my people, enter into your rooms and shut your doors behind you; 1 hide for a little while, until the indignation has passed by. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 2:5No bush of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Deuteronomy 33:13About Joseph, Moses said: 1 May his land be blessed by Yahweh 1 with the precious things of heaven, with the dew, 1 and with the deep that lies beneath. 1

Job 14:8Though its root grows old in the earth, 1 and its stump dies in the ground, 1

Psalms 22:15My strength has dried up like a piece of pottery; 1 my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. 1 You have laid me in the dust of death. 1

Psalms 88:11Will your covenant faithfulness be proclaimed in the grave, 1 your loyalty in the place of the dead? 1

Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death forever, 1 and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; 1 the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 26:13-20

Goodness of God to Israel; Israel Corrected for Sin; Prospects of the Church. ( b. c. 718.) 12 Lord , thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. 13 O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord , thou hast… Read the whole commentary →

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