Isaiah 26:14

Isaiah 26:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)They are now dead, they live no more; their spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They are dead, they will not live; They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish.

Context of Isaiah 26:14

12Lord, you will give us peace. Everything that we have done, you have done on our behalf. 13Lord, our God, other lords have ruled over us. But you are the only one that we worship. Those other lords are dead. They will not live again. Their spirits will not rise up again. You punished them and you destroyed them. Nobody remembers them any more. 15Lord, you have made our nation larger. You have made our nation larger and you have shown how great you are. You have made all the borders of our land grow bigger. 16Lord, when your people had trouble, they came to you for help. When you punished them, they turned to you and they prayed.

Isaiah 26:14 word by word

מֵתִים֙ בַּל־יִחְי֔וּ רְפָאִ֖ים בַּל־יָקֻ֑מוּ לָכֵ֤ן פָּקַ֙דְתָּ֙ וַתַּשְׁמִידֵ֔ם וַתְּאַבֵּ֥ד כָּל־זֵ֖כֶר לָֽמוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• deadמוּתmûth · to dieH4191
• they shall not liveחָיָהchâyâh · to liveH2421
• deceasedרְפָאִיםrâphâ' · shadeH7496
• they shall not riseקוּםqûm · to arise: riseH6965
• therefore hast thou visitedפָּקַדpâqad · to reckon: visitH6485
• and destroyedשָׁמַדshâmad · to destroyH8045
• them, and made all their memoryזֵ֫כֶרzêker zeker · memorialH2143
• to perishאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6

Cross-references for Isaiah 26:14

• Isaiah 26:19But Lord, your people who have died will live again. Their bodies will rise up from their graves. You people who live in the ground, wake up! Shout because you are happy. You bring new life to the earth, like dew that comes in the morning. Dead people will come up from the earth and they will live again.
• Isaiah 8:19They will say to you, ‘Go to the people who speak to the spirits of dead people. Go to the magicians who speak magic words. They will tell you what you should do. People should ask their gods and spirits to give them messages. People who are alive should ask the spirits of dead people to help them.’
• Isaiah 51:12‘I am the Lord who comforts you. You do not need to be afraid of people who are only human. Remember that they will all die one day, like grass that only lives for a short time.
• Exodus 14:30On that day, the Lord saved the Israelites from the Egyptian army. The Israelites saw the dead bodies of the Egyptians, which lay on the shore.
• Psalms 106:28After that, they started to worship the false god, Baal of Peor. They ate the food from sacrifices that people gave to dead idols.
• Habakkuk 2:18What value does an idol have? What help can it give? Somebody has made it as the image of a false god. It can only tell false messages. Why should its maker trust it for help? He has used wood or metal to make it and it cannot speak!
• Matthew 2:20The angel said to Joseph, ‘Get up. The people who wanted to kill the child are dead. Take the child and his mother. You can now return with them to Israel.’
• Revelation 18:2He shouted with a very loud voice: ‘God has destroyed the great city of Babylon! She has become a place where demons live. She is a home for every disgusting spirit. She is a home for every unclean bird. She is a home for every unclean and disgusting animal.
• Revelation 19:19Then I saw the wild animal and the kings of the earth and their armies. They had come together to fight a war. They were ready to fight a battle against the man who rode on the white horse and his army.
• Revelation 20:5(But all the other dead people did not become alive again until the 1,000 years had finished.) This is the first time that God raises up dead people to become alive again.
• Isaiah 14:19But as for you, Babylon's king, they have thrown you out! You have no grave! You are like a branch that has broken off. You lie among the dead bodies of soldiers that their enemies have killed with their swords. They have thrown your body into a big hole in the rocks, and they have walked over it.
• Psalms 9:6Down came the cities of our enemies! You destroyed them for ever. People will just forget them.
• Psalms 109:13Remove all the descendants in his family. When his children die, may nobody remember his family any more!
• Proverbs 10:7It is a pleasure to remember righteous people. But when wicked people die, people soon forget their name.

Commentaries on Isaiah 26:14

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14They are dead - That is, the kings and tyrants to whom reference is made in Isaiah 26:13. The principal enemies of the Jews, who had oppressed them, were slain when Babylon was taken by Cyrus (see the notes at Isaiah 14:9-10; compare Psalm 88:11; Proverbs 2:18; Proverbs 9:18; Proverbs 21:16). The sense here is, that they had died and gone to the land of shades, and were now unable anymore to reach or injure the people of God. Therefore - Or rather, “for”…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-19Verses 12-19 Every creature, every business, any way serviceable to our comfort, God makes to be so; he makes that work for us which seemed to make against us. They had been slaves of sin and Satan; but by the Divine grace they were taught to look to be set free from all former masters. The cause opposed to God and his kingdom will sink at last. See our need of afflictions. Before, prayer came drop by drop; now they pour it out, it comes now like water…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-21The godly pray for the end of oppression and the full establishment of God’s kingdom. Isaiah encouraged the godly to persevere as they wait for their final vindication and the resurrection of the body.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. They--The "other lords" or tyrants (Is 26:13). shall not live--namely, again. deceased--Hebrew, "Rephaim"; powerless, in the land of shades (Is 14:9, 10). therefore--that is, inasmuch as. Compare "therefore" (Ge 18:5; 19:8).Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 26:14

• Death
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• Delivery
• Giants
• Indignation
• Judgment
• Daniel, Book of
• Decease, in the Old Testament and Apocyphra
• Intercession
• Isaiah
• Memorial; Memory
• Rephaim

Commentaries on Isaiah 26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings