Isaiah 26:19 
Context| NET © | 1 Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! 2 For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, 3 and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits. 4 |
| NIV © | But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead. |
| NASB © | Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits. |
| NLT © | Yet we have this assurance: Those who belong to God will live; their bodies will rise again! Those who sleep in the earth will rise up and sing for joy! For God’s light of life will fall like dew on his people in the place of the dead! |
| MSG © | But friends, your dead will live, your corpses will get to their feet. All you dead and buried, wake up! Sing! Your dew is morning dew catching the first rays of sun, The earth bursting with life, giving birth to the dead. |
| BBE © | Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades. |
| NRSV © | Your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a radiant dew, and the earth will give birth to those long dead. |
| NKJV © | Your dead shall live; Together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew is like the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead. |
| KJV | |
| NASB © | Your dead <04191> will live <02421> ; Their corpses <05038> will rise <06965> . You who lie <07931> in the dust <06083> , awake <07019> and shout <07442> for joy <07442> , For your dew <02919> is as the dew <02919> of the dawn <0219> , And the earth <0776> will give <05307> birth <05307> to the departed <07496> spirits .<07496> |
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| LXXM | |
| NET © [draft] ITL | Your dead <04191> will come back to life <02421> ; your corpses <05038> will rise up <06965> . Wake up <06974> and shout joyfully <07442> , you who live <07931> in the ground <06083> ! For <03588> you will grow like plants drenched <02919> with the morning <0219> dew <02919> , and the earth <0776> will bring forth <05307> its dead spirits .<07496> |
| NET © | 1 Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! 2 For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, 3 and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits. 4 |
| NET © Notes |
1 sn At this point the Lord (or prophet) gives the people an encouraging oracle. 2 tn Heb “dust” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). 3 tn Heb “for the dew of lights [is] your dew.” The pronominal suffix on “dew” is masculine singular, like the suffixes on “your dead” and “your corpses” in the first half of the verse. The statement, then, is addressed to collective Israel, the speaker in verse 18. The plural form אוֹרֹת (’orot) is probably a plural of respect or magnitude, meaning “bright light” (i.e., morning’s light). Dew is a symbol of fertility and life. Here Israel’s “dew,” as it were, will soak the dust of the ground and cause the corpses of the dead to spring up to new life, like plants sprouting up from well-watered soil. 4 sn It is not certain whether the resurrection envisioned here is intended to be literal or figurative. A comparison with 25:8 and Dan 12:2 suggests a literal interpretation, but Ezek 37:1-14 uses resurrection as a metaphor for deliverance from exile and the restoration of the nation (see Isa 27:12-13). |
