Isaiah 26:14

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“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.”

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BSBPD

“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 · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Dead--they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 26:14 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 14:30That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.
  2. Deuteronomy 4:28And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
  3. Job 7:9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
  4. Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
  5. Job 24:20The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
  6. Psalms 9:6The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
  7. Psalms 106:28They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
  8. Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
  9. Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
  10. Isaiah 8:19When 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?
  11. Isaiah 10:3What 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?
  12. Isaiah 14:19But 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.
  13. Isaiah 26:19Your 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.
  14. Isaiah 51:12“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
  15. Habakkuk 2:18What 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.
  16. Matthew 2:20“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.”
  17. Revelation 18:2And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.
  18. Revelation 19:19Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies assembled to wage war against the One seated on the horse, and against His army.
  19. Revelation 20:5The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.

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