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Isa. 26:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, yef that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

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Dan. 12:2• ²And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame, to everlasting contempt. (Dan. 12:2)

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dead men.

Isa. 25:8• ⁸He will swallow up death in victory. And the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken. (Isa. 25:8)

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Ezek. 37:1‑14• ¹The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and Jehovah carried me out in the Spirit, and set me down in the midst of a valley; and it was full of bones.
²And he caused me to pass by them round about; and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.
³And he said unto me, Son of man, Shall these bones live? And I said, Lord Jehovah, thou knowest.
⁴And he said unto me, Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them, Ye dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah.
⁵Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
⁶And I will put sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
⁷And I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a rustling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
⁸And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.
⁹And he said unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
¹⁰And I prophesied as he had commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
¹¹And he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off!
¹²Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people, and bring you into the land of Israel.
¹³And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, and have caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people.
¹⁴And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and ye shall know that I Jehovah have spoken, and have done it, saith Jehovah. (Ezek. 37:1‑14)

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Hos. 6:2• ²After two days will he revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before his face; (Hos. 6:2)

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Hos. 13:14• ¹⁴I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death: where, O death, are thy plagues? where, O Sheol, is thy destruction? Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. (Hos. 13:14)

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John 5:28‑29• ²⁸Wonder not at this, for an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs shall hear his voice,
²⁹and shall go forth; those that have practised good, to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil, to resurrection of judgment. (John 5:28‑29)

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Acts 24:15• ¹⁵having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust. (Acts 24:15)

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1 Cor. 15:22‑23• ²²For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.
²³But each in his own rank: the first-fruits, Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming. (1 Cor. 15:22‑23)

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1 Thess. 4:14‑15• ¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.
¹⁵(For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that *we*, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep; (1 Thess. 4:14‑15)

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Rev. 20:5‑6,12• ⁵the rest of the dead did not live till the thousand years had been completed. This is the first resurrection.
⁶Blessed and holy he who has part in the first resurrection: over these the second death has no power; but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
¹²And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is that of life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works. (Rev. 20:5‑6,12)

my dead.

Matt. 27:52,58• ⁵²and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints fallen asleep arose,
⁵⁸*He*, going to Pilate, begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up. (Matt. 27:52,58)

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John 11:25‑26• ²⁵Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;
²⁶and every one who lives and believes on me shall never die. Believest thou this? (John 11:25‑26)

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1 Cor. 15:20,23• ²⁰(But now Christ is raised from among the dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.
²³But each in his own rank: the first-fruits, Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming. (1 Cor. 15:20,23)

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Phil. 3:10,21• ¹⁰to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
²¹who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to his body of glory, according to the working of the power which he has even to subdue all things to himself. (Phil. 3:10,21)

Awake

Isa. 51:17• ¹⁷Arouse thyself, arouse thyself, stand up, Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury. Thou hast drunk, hast drained out the goblet-cup of bewilderment: (Isa. 51:17)

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Isa. 52:1‑2• ¹Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
²Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, captive daughter of Zion. (Isa. 52:1‑2)

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Isa. 60:1‑2• ¹Arise, shine! for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee.
²For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen on thee. (Isa. 60:1‑2)

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Psa. 22:15• ¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death. (Psa. 22:15)

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Psa. 71:20• ²⁰Thou, who hast shewn us many and sore troubles, wilt revive us again, and wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth; (Psa. 71:20)

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Dan. 12:2• ²And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame, to everlasting contempt. (Dan. 12:2)

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Eph. 5:14• ¹⁴Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee. (Eph. 5:14)

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Rev. 11:8‑11• ⁸and their body shall be on the street of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
⁹And men of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their body three days and a half, and they do not suffer their bodies to be put into a sepulchre.
¹⁰And they that dwell upon the earth rejoice over them, and are full of delight, and shall send gifts one to another, because these, the two prophets, tormented them that dwell upon the earth.
¹¹And after the three days and a half the spirit of life from God came into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon those beholding them. (Rev. 11:8‑11)

thy dew.

Gen. 2:5‑6• ⁵and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.
⁶But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface of the ground. (Gen. 2:5‑6)

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Deut. 32:2• ²My doctrine shall drop as rain, My speech flow down as dew, As small rain upon the tender herb, And as showers on the grass. (Deut. 32:2)

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Deut. 33:13,28• ¹³And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Jehovah be his land! By the precious things of the heavens, By the dew, and by the deep that lieth beneath,
²⁸And Israel shall dwell in safety alone, The fountain of Jacob, in a land of corn and new wine; Also his heavens shall drop down dew. (Deut. 33:13,28)

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Job 29:19• ¹⁹My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch; (Job 29:19)

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Psa. 110:3• ³Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in holy splendour: from the womb of the morning shall come to thee the dew of thy youth. (Psa. 110:3)

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Hos. 14:5• ⁵I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. (Hos. 14:5)

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Zech. 8:12• ¹²for the seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. (Zech. 8:12)

the earth.

Rev. 20:13• ¹³And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged each according to their works: (Rev. 20:13)

• Verses 19-21 give the answer of God to this prayer of confession. “Thy dead shall live, My dead bodies shall arise” (New Trans.). Here we have in a brief statement what is given in more detail in Ezekiel 37, and alluded to in Daniel 12:2 the national reviving of Israel, when God raises up and gathers His elect. (“Isaiah 26” by F.B. Hole)

• It is worthy of note that, when proving to the Sadducees from Scripture the fact of the resurrection, our Lord did not quote these scriptures but went back to His words to Moses. (“Isaiah 26” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thy dead shall live, my dead bodiesa shall arise. Awake and sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew of the morningb, and the earthc shall cast forth the deadd.

JND Translation Notes

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a

According to others "[with] my dead body, they."

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Lit. "the lights."

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Or "land."

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As ch. 14.9.