Isaiah 26:19
Good News Translation
Those of our people who have died will live again! Their bodies will come back to life. All those sleeping in their graves will wake up and sing for joy. As the sparkling dew refreshes the earth, so the LORD will revive those who have long been dead.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
Your people will rise to life! Tell them to leave their graves and celebrate with shouts. You refresh the earth like morning dew; you give life to the dead.

New American Bible
But your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise! Awake and sing, you who lie in the dust! For your dew is a dew of light, and you cause the land of shades to give birth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

dead men

Isaiah 25:8 He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Ezekiel 37:1-14 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the spirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was full of bones. . . .

Hosea 6:2 For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.

Hosea 13:14 I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.

John 5:28,29 Wonder not at this: for the hour cometh wherein all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God. . . .

Acts 24:15 Having hope in God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection of the just and unjust.

1 Corinthians 15:22,23 And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:14,15 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him. . . .

Revelation 20:5,6,12 The rest of the dead lived not, till the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. . . .

my dead

Matthew 27:52,58 And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that had slept arose, . . .

John 11:25,26 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live: . . .

1 Corinthians 15:20,23 But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep: . . .

Philippians 3:10,21 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death, . . .

awake

Isaiah 51:17 Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunk even to the bottom of the cup of dead sleep, and thou hast drunk even to the dregs.

Isaiah 52:1,2 Arise, arise, put on thy strength, O Sion, put on the garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the city of the Holy One: for henceforth the uncircumcised, and unclean shall no more pass through thee. . . .

Isaiah 60:1,2 Arise, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. . . .

Psalm 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.

Psalm 71:20 How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:

Daniel 12:2 And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.

Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

Revelation 11:8-11 And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city which is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt: where their Lord also was crucified. . . .

thy dew

Genesis 2:5,6 And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:2 Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.

Deuteronomy 33:13,28 To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord be his land, of the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the deep that lieth beneath. . . .

Job 29:19 My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.

Psalm 110:3 With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

Hosea 14:5 I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

Zechariah 8:12 But there shall be the seed of peace: the vine shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew: and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

the earth

Revelation 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it: and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them. And they were judged, every one according to their works.

Context
A Song of Trust in God's Provision
18We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen. 19Thy 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.20Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.…
Cross References
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

Revelation 20:13
And the sea gave up the dead that were in it: and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them. And they were judged, every one according to their works.

1 Samuel 2:6
The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

Psalm 22:29
All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.

Isaiah 18:4
For thus saith the Lord to me: I will take my rest, and consider in my place, as the noon light is clear, and as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

Isaiah 25:8
He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Ezekiel 37:1
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the spirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was full of bones.

Ezekiel 37:12
Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres, O my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel.

Daniel 12:2
And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.

Hosea 13:14
I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.

Hosea 14:5
I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

Isaiah 26:18
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