Isaiah 26:14 “The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore…”

Isaiah 26:14

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James 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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

The dead shall not liue, neither shall the dead arise, because thou hast visited and scattered them, and destroyed all their memorie.

Darby Translation

[They are] dead, they shall not live; deceased, they shall not rise: for thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made 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.

Bible in Basic English

The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

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Cross references

“dead”

Isaiah 8:19 Psalm 106:28 Habakkuk 2:18–20 Exodus 14:30 Matthew 2:20 Revelation 20:5

Isaiah 8:19 · BSB

When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Psalm 106:28 · BSB

They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

Habakkuk 2:18–20 · BSB

What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

Exodus 14:30 · BSB

That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.

Matthew 2:20 · BSB

“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”

Revelation 20:5 · BSB

The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.

“and made”

Proverbs 10:7 Isaiah 14:19–22 Psalm 9:6 Psalm 109:13

Proverbs 10:7 · BSB

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Isaiah 14:19–22 · BSB

But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

Psalm 9:6 · BSB

The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.

Psalm 109:13 · BSB

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Also

Isaiah 10:3 Deuteronomy 4:28

Isaiah 10:3 · BSB

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?

Deuteronomy 4:28 · BSB

And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13O LORD our God, other lords besides You have ruled over us, but Your name alone do we confess.

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.

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