Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They are now dead, they live no more; their spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them. New Living Translation Those we served before are dead and gone. Their departed spirits will never return! You attacked them and destroyed them, and they are long forgotten. English Standard Version They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them. Berean Standard Bible The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them. King James Bible 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. New King James Version They are dead, they will not live; They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish. New American Standard Bible The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have eliminated all remembrance of them. NASB 1995 The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out all remembrance of them. NASB 1977 The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore Thou hast punished and destroyed them, And Thou hast wiped out all remembrance of them. Legacy Standard Bible The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have visited and destroyed them, And You have made all remembrance of them perish. Amplified Bible The [wicked] dead will not live [again], the spirits of the dead will not rise and return; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out every memory of them [every trace of them]. Christian Standard Bible The dead do not live; departed spirits do not rise up. Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them; you have wiped out all memory of them. Holman Christian Standard Bible The dead do not live; departed spirits do not rise up. Indeed, You have visited and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them. American Standard Version They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish. Aramaic Bible in Plain English The dead do not give life and giants do not raise up; because of this, you have visited and you put them last, and you destroyed all their remembrance Brenton Septuagint Translation But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise them up: therefore thou hast brought wrath upon them, and slain them, and hast taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord; Contemporary English Version Those enemies are now dead and can never live again. You have punished them--they are destroyed, completely forgotten. Douay-Rheims Bible Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and best destroyed all their memory. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation The wicked are dead. They are no longer alive. The spirits of the dead won't rise. You have punished them, destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them. Good News Translation Now they are dead and will not live again; their ghosts will not rise, for you have punished them and destroyed them. No one remembers them any more. International Standard Version The dead won't live, and the departed spirits won't rise— to that end, you punished and destroyed them, then locked away all memory of them. JPS Tanakh 1917 The dead live not, the shades rise not; To that end hast Thou punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish. Literal Standard Version Dead—they do not live, | Rephaim, they do not rise, | Therefore You have inspected and destroy them, | Indeed, you destroy all their memory. Majority Standard Bible The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them. New American Bible Dead they are, they cannot live, shades that cannot rise; Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them. NET Bible The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them. New Revised Standard Version The dead do not live; shades do not rise— because you have punished and destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them. New Heart English Bible The dead shall not live, and the departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish. Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish. Young's Literal Translation Dead -- they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Song of Trust in God's Provision…13O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion, but Your name alone do we confess. 14The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them. 15You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.… Cross References Deuteronomy 4:28 And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. Psalm 36:12 There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise. Psalm 59:5 O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah Psalm 135:17 they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths. Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten. Isaiah 8:19 When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn't a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? Isaiah 10:3 What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth? Treasury of Scripture They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. dead 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. Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? Isaiah 51:12,13 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; … and made Isaiah 14:19-22 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet… Psalm 9:6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. Psalm 109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. Jump to Previous Arise Cause Caused Dead Deceased Departed Destroy Destroyed Destruction Earth End Inspected Live Memory Perish Punished Remembrance Rephaim Rise Ruin Shades Spirits Visited WipedJump to Next Arise Cause Caused Dead Deceased Departed Destroy Destroyed Destruction Earth End Inspected Live Memory Perish Punished Remembrance Rephaim Rise Ruin Shades Spirits Visited WipedIsaiah 26 1. Trust in God's Provision(14) They are dead . . .--We get a more vivid rendering by omitting the words in italics, Dead, they live not; shadows (Rephaim, as in Psalm 88:10), they rise not. Those of whom the prophet speaks are the rulers of the great world-empires, who, as in Isaiah 14:9; Ezekiel 32:21, have passed into the gloomy world of Hades, out of which there was, for them at least, no escape. Their very names should perish from the memories of men. The LXX., adopting another etymology of the word Rephaim, gives the singular rendering, "Physicians shall not raise them up to life."Verse 14. - They are dead, etc.; literally. Dead, they shall not live (i.e. return to life); deceased, they shall not arise. The power of the idol-gods is altogether passed away. It was for this end - therefore - that God had visited and destroyed them, and made their very memory to perish. How strange it seems that the "great gods" whom so many millions worshipped in former times - Bel, and Asshur, and Ammon, and Zeus, and Jupiter - should have passed so completely away as to be almost wholly forgotten! Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The deadמֵתִים֙ (mê·ṯîm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 4191: To die, to kill will not בַּל־ (bal-) Adverb Strong's 1077: A failure, nothing, not at all, lest live; יִחְי֔וּ (yiḥ·yū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 2421: To live, to revive the departed spirits רְפָאִ֖ים (rə·p̄ā·’îm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 7496: Shades, ghosts will not בַּל־ (bal-) Adverb Strong's 1077: A failure, nothing, not at all, lest rise. יָקֻ֑מוּ (yā·qu·mū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand Therefore לָכֵ֤ן (lā·ḵên) Adverb Strong's 3651: So -- thus You have punished פָּקַ֙דְתָּ֙ (pā·qaḏ·tā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 6485: To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit and destroyed them; וַתַּשְׁמִידֵ֔ם (wat·taš·mî·ḏêm) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural Strong's 8045: To be exterminated or destroyed You have wiped out וַתְּאַבֵּ֥ד (wat·tə·’ab·bêḏ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish all כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every memory of them. זֵ֖כֶר (zê·ḵer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2143: A memento, recollection, commemoration Links Isaiah 26:14 NIVIsaiah 26:14 NLT Isaiah 26:14 ESV Isaiah 26:14 NASB Isaiah 26:14 KJV Isaiah 26:14 BibleApps.com Isaiah 26:14 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 26:14 Chinese Bible Isaiah 26:14 French Bible Isaiah 26:14 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 26:14 The dead shall not live (Isa Isi Is) |
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