Isaiah 26:14
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.

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.

Contemporary English Version
Those enemies are now dead and can never live again. You have punished them--they are destroyed, completely forgotten.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.

dead

Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.

Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners, who mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their God, for the living of the dead?

Isaiah 51:12,13 I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass? . . .

Exodus 14:30 And the Lord delivered Israel in that day out of the hands of the Egyptians.

Psalm 106:28 They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Habakkuk 2:18-20 What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols. . . .

Matthew 2:20 Saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child.

Revelation 18:2,3 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird: . . .

Revelation 19:19-21 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to make war with him that sat upon the horse and with his army. . . .

Revelation 20:5 The rest of the dead lived not, till the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

and made

Isaiah 14:19-22 But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass. . . .

Psalm 9:6 The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise:

Psalm 109:13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

Proverbs 10:7 The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Context
A Song of Trust in God's Provision
13O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us, only in thee let us remember thy name. 14Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.15Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been favourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou hast removed all the ends of the earth far off.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28
And there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men's hands: wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Psalm 36:12
There the workers of iniquity are fallen, they are cast out, and could not stand.

Psalm 59:5
Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.

Psalm 135:17
They have ears, but they hear not: neither is there any breath in their mouths.

Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.

Isaiah 8:19
And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners, who mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their God, for the living of the dead?

Isaiah 10:3
What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

Isaiah 29:6
And it shall be at an instant suddenly. A visitation shall come from the Lord of hosts in thunder, and with earthquake, and with a great noise of whirlwind and tempest; and with the flame of devouring fire.

Isaiah 37:19
And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them in pieces.

Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him that saith to wood: Awake: to the dumb stone: Arise: can it teach? Behold, it is laid over with gold, and silver, and there is no spirit in the bowels thereof.

Isaiah 26:13
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