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You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/26.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Those we served before are dead and gone. Their departed spirits will never return! You attacked them and destroyed them, and they are long forgotten.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/26.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/26.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/26.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br /><i>They are</i> dead, they shall not live; <i>they are</i> deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/26.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br /><i>They are</i> dead, they will not live; <i>They are</i> deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/26.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have eliminated all remembrance of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/26.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/26.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore Thou hast punished and destroyed them, And Thou hast wiped out all remembrance of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/26.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have visited and destroyed them, And You have made all remembrance of them perish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/26.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />The [wicked] dead will not live [again], the spirits of the dead will not rise <i>and</i> return; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out every memory of them [every trace of them].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/26.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The dead do not live; departed spirits do not rise up. Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them; you have wiped out all memory of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/26.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The dead do not live; departed spirits do not rise up. Indeed, You have visited and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/26.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/26.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Those enemies are now dead and can never live again. You have punished them--they are destroyed, completely forgotten. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/26.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/26.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />The wicked are dead. They are no longer alive. The spirits of the dead won't rise. You have punished them, destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/26.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/26.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />The dead won't live, and the departed spirits won't rise— to that end, you punished and destroyed them, then locked away all memory of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/26.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/26.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/26.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The dead shall not live, and the departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/26.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/26.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/26.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Dead—they do not live, "" Rephaim, they do not rise, "" Therefore You have inspected and destroy them, "" Indeed, you destroy all their memory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/26.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Dead -- they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/26.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />The dead shall not live; shades shall not rise; for this, thou reviewedst and thou wilt destroy them, and all remembrance to them shall perish.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/26.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and best destroyed all their memory. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/26.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Let not the dead live; let not the giants rise up again. For this reason, you have visited and destroyed them, and you have perished all remembrance of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/26.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Dead they are, they cannot live, shades that cannot rise; Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/26.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The dead do not live; shades do not rise— because you have punished and destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/26.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />For they do not raise the dead, they do not raise the mighty men; therefore thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/26.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />The dead do not give life and giants do not raise up; because of this, you have visited and you put them last, and you destroyed all their remembrance<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/26.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />The dead live not, the shades rise not; To that end hast Thou punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/26.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise <i>them</i> up: therefore thou hast brought <i>wrath</i> upon <i>them</i>, and slain <i>them</i>, and hast taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/26-14.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=5300" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/26.htm">A Song of Trust in God's Provision</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">13</span>O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion, but Your name alone do we confess. <span class="reftext">14</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/4191.htm" title="4191: mê·ṯîm (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- To die. A primitive root: to die; causatively, to kill.">The dead</a> <a href="/hebrew/1077.htm" title="1077: bal- (Adv) -- Not. From balah; properly, a failure; by implication nothing; usually not at all; also lest.">will not</a> <a href="/hebrew/2421.htm" title="2421: yiḥ·yū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To live, to revive. A primitive root; to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive.">live;</a> <a href="/hebrew/7496.htm" title="7496: rə·p̄ā·’îm (N-mp) -- Shades, ghosts. From rapha' in the sense of raphah; properly, lax, i.e. a ghost.">the departed spirits</a> <a href="/hebrew/1077.htm" title="1077: bal- (Adv) -- Not. From balah; properly, a failure; by implication nothing; usually not at all; also lest.">will not</a> <a href="/hebrew/6965.htm" title="6965: yā·qu·mū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To arise, stand up, stand. A primitive root; to rise.">rise.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: lā·ḵên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">Therefore</a> <a href="/hebrew/6485.htm" title="6485: pā·qaḏ·tā (V-Qal-Perf-2ms) -- To attend to, visit, muster, appoint. A primitive root; to visit; by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.">You have punished</a> <a href="/hebrew/8045.htm" title="8045: wat·taš·mî·ḏêm (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-2ms:: 3mp) -- To be exterminated or destroyed. A primitive root; to desolate.">and destroyed them;</a> <a href="/hebrew/6.htm" title="6: wat·tə·’ab·bêḏ (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConsecImperf-2ms) -- To perish. A primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. Lose oneself; by implication to perish.">You have wiped out</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/2143.htm" title="2143: zê·ḵer (N-ms) -- Remembrance, memorial. Or zeker; from zakar; a memento, abstr. Recollection; by implication, commemoration.">memory</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·mōw (Prep:: 3mp) -- ">of them.</a> </span><span class="reftext">15</span>You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/49-19.htm">Psalm 49:19-20</a></span><br />he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day. / A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/14-10.htm">Job 14:10-12</a></span><br />But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he? / As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry, / so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/9-5.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:5-6</a></span><br />For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten. / Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/51-39.htm">Jeremiah 51:39</a></span><br />While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/88-10.htm">Psalm 88:10-12</a></span><br />Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah / Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? / Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/daniel/12-2.htm">Daniel 12:2</a></span><br />And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/37-12.htm">Ezekiel 37:12-14</a></span><br />Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. / Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. / I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/6-5.htm">Psalm 6:5</a></span><br />For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-18.htm">1 Corinthians 15:18</a></span><br />Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-13.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:13-14</a></span><br />Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope. / For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/20-5.htm">Revelation 20:5</a></span><br />The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/5-28.htm">John 5:28-29</a></span><br />Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice / and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/6-9.htm">Romans 6:9</a></span><br />For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-52.htm">1 Corinthians 15:52</a></span><br />in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/20-12.htm">Revelation 20:12-13</a></span><br />And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books. / The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.</p><p class="hdg">dead</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm">Isaiah 26:19</a></b></br> Thy dead <i>men</i> shall live, <i>together with</i> my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew <i>is as</i> the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/8-19.htm">Isaiah 8:19</a></b></br> And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/51-12.htm">Isaiah 51:12,13</a></b></br> I, <i>even</i> I, <i>am</i> he that comforteth you: who <i>art</i> thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man <i>that</i> shall die, and of the son of man <i>which</i> shall be made <i>as</i> grass; … </p><p class="hdg">and made</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/14-19.htm">Isaiah 14:19-22</a></b></br> But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, <i>and as</i> the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalm 9:6</a></b></br> O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/109-13.htm">Psalm 109:13</a></b></br> Let his posterity be cut off; <i>and</i> in the generation following let their name be blotted out.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/23-12.htm">Arise</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-3.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-12.htm">Caused</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-2.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/job/26-5.htm">Deceased</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-9.htm">Departed</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-7.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-14.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-12.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-9.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-7.htm">End</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-22.htm">Inspected</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-6.htm">Live</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-8.htm">Memory</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-28.htm">Perish</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-22.htm">Punished</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-8.htm">Remembrance</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-5.htm">Rephaim</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-20.htm">Rise</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-2.htm">Ruin</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-9.htm">Shades</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-3.htm">Spirits</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-22.htm">Visited</a> <a href="/proverbs/30-20.htm">Wiped</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm">Arise</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-6.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-7.htm">Caused</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/matthew/22-25.htm">Deceased</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm">Departed</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-7.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-1.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-2.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-15.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-22.htm">End</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-6.htm">Inspected</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm">Live</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-17.htm">Memory</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-13.htm">Perish</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-6.htm">Punished</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-26.htm">Remembrance</a> <a href="/genesis/14-5.htm">Rephaim</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm">Rise</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-28.htm">Ruin</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm">Shades</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm">Spirits</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-16.htm">Visited</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-22.htm">Wiped</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 26</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/26-1.htm">Trust in God's Provision</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the context of Isaiah, it speaks to the fate of the enemies of Israel, who have been judged and will not experience resurrection or restoration. This can be contrasted with the hope of resurrection for the righteous, as seen in passages like <a href="/daniel/12-2.htm">Daniel 12:2</a> and <a href="/1_corinthians/15-52.htm">1 Corinthians 15:52</a>, where the faithful are promised eternal life.<p><b>the departed spirits will not rise.</b><br>The term "departed spirits" refers to the Rephaim, often understood as shades or spirits of the dead in Sheol, the abode of the dead. This phrase emphasizes the permanence of their judgment, as they will not partake in the resurrection. This is consistent with the biblical theme that only those who are in covenant with God will rise to eternal life, as seen in <a href="/john/5-28.htm">John 5:28-29</a>.<p><b>Therefore You have punished and destroyed them;</b><br>This reflects God's righteous judgment against those who have rebelled against Him. The historical context includes the judgment of nations that oppressed Israel, such as Babylon and Assyria. God's actions are portrayed as just and necessary to uphold His holiness and the covenant with His people. This aligns with the broader biblical narrative of God as a just judge, as seen in <a href="/psalms/9-7.htm">Psalm 9:7-8</a>.<p><b>You have wiped out all memory of them.</b><br>The erasure of memory signifies complete and utter destruction, leaving no legacy or remembrance. This is a common theme in the Old Testament, where the wicked are often said to be forgotten (<a href="/psalms/34-16.htm">Psalm 34:16</a>). It underscores the totality of God's judgment and serves as a warning to those who oppose His will. In contrast, the memory of the righteous is preserved, as seen in <a href="/proverbs/10-7.htm">Proverbs 10:7</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah is the author of the book bearing his name. He prophesied during the reigns of several kings of Judah and is known for his messages of both judgment and hope.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_dead/departed_spirits.htm">The Dead/Departed Spirits</a></b><br>This refers to those who have died, particularly those who were enemies of God and His people. In the context of Isaiah, it often refers to the pagan nations and their leaders who opposed Israel.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/g/god's_judgment.htm">God's Judgment</a></b><br>The event of divine retribution where God punishes those who have opposed Him and His people. This is a recurring theme in Isaiah, where God asserts His sovereignty over all nations.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_finality_of_god's_judgment.htm">The Finality of God's Judgment</a></b><br>God's judgment is decisive and irreversible. The fate of those who oppose Him is sealed, and their memory is wiped out. This serves as a sobering reminder of the seriousness of sin and rebellion against God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_sovereignty_of_god.htm">The Sovereignty of God</a></b><br>God is sovereign over life and death. He has the power to give life and to take it away. This should lead us to a posture of humility and reverence before Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_hope_for_the_righteous.htm">The Hope for the Righteous</a></b><br>While the wicked face destruction, the righteous have hope in God's promises. This contrast encourages believers to remain faithful and trust in God's ultimate justice.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_remembering_god's_works.htm">The Importance of Remembering God's Works</a></b><br>Unlike the memory of the wicked, the works of God and His faithfulness endure forever. Believers are called to remember and proclaim His deeds to future generations.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_26.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 26</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_isaiah_26_14_align_with_god's_justice.htm">How does Isaiah 26:14’s statement that the wicked will not rise align with broader biblical teachings on God’s justice and mercy? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_are_the_names_of_the_holy_spirit.htm">What are the names of the Holy Spirit?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_isaiah_19_1-4_match_egyptian_history.htm">Does Isaiah 19:1-4 align with known Egyptian history regarding civil strife and political upheaval?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_'firstfruits_of_his_creatures'.htm">What does 'I will not give my glory to another' mean?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/26.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(14) <span class= "bld">They are dead . . .</span>--We get a more vivid rendering by omitting the words in italics, <span class= "ital">Dead, they live not; shadows </span>(<span class= "ital">Rephaim, </span>as in <a href="/psalms/88-10.htm" title="Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.">Psalm 88:10</a>), <span class= "ital">they rise not. </span>Those of whom the prophet speaks are the rulers of the great world-empires, who, as in <a href="/isaiah/14-9.htm" title="Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.">Isaiah 14:9</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/32-21.htm" title="The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the middle of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.">Ezekiel 32:21</a>, have passed into the gloomy world of Hades, out of which there was, for them at least, no escape. Their very names should perish from the memories of men. The LXX., adopting another etymology of the word <span class= "ital">Rephaim, </span>gives the singular rendering, "Physicians shall not raise them up to life."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/26.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 14.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">They are dead</span>, etc.; literally. <span class="accented">Dead</span>, <span class="accented">they shall not live</span> (<span class="accented">i.e.</span> return to life); <span class="accented">deceased</span>, <span class="accented">they shall not arise</span>. The power of the idol-gods is altogether passed away. It was for this end - <span class="cmt_word">therefore</span> - that God had <span class="cmt_word">visited and destroyed them, and made their very memory to perish</span>. How strange it seems that the "great gods" whom so many millions worshipped in former times - Bel, and Asshur, and Ammon, and Zeus, and Jupiter - should have passed so completely away as to be almost wholly forgotten! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/26-14.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">The dead</span><br /><span class="heb">מֵתִים֙</span> <span class="translit">(mê·ṯîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4191.htm">Strong's 4191: </a> </span><span class="str2">To die, to kill</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will not</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּל־</span> <span class="translit">(bal-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1077.htm">Strong's 1077: </a> </span><span class="str2">A failure, nothing, not at all, lest</span><br /><br /><span class="word">live;</span><br /><span class="heb">יִחְי֔וּ</span> <span class="translit">(yiḥ·yū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2421.htm">Strong's 2421: </a> </span><span class="str2">To live, to revive</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the departed spirits</span><br /><span class="heb">רְפָאִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(rə·p̄ā·’îm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7496.htm">Strong's 7496: </a> </span><span class="str2">Shades, ghosts</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will not</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּל־</span> <span class="translit">(bal-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1077.htm">Strong's 1077: </a> </span><span class="str2">A failure, nothing, not at all, lest</span><br /><br /><span class="word">rise.</span><br /><span class="heb">יָקֻ֑מוּ</span> <span class="translit">(yā·qu·mū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6965.htm">Strong's 6965: </a> </span><span class="str2">To arise, stand up, stand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Therefore</span><br /><span class="heb">לָכֵ֤ן</span> <span class="translit">(lā·ḵên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> </span><span class="str2">So -- thus</span><br /><br /><span class="word">You have punished</span><br /><span class="heb">פָּקַ֙דְתָּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(pā·qaḏ·tā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6485.htm">Strong's 6485: </a> </span><span class="str2">To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and destroyed them;</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתַּשְׁמִידֵ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(wat·taš·mî·ḏêm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8045.htm">Strong's 8045: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be exterminated or destroyed</span><br /><br /><span class="word">You have wiped out</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתְּאַבֵּ֥ד</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tə·’ab·bêḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6.htm">Strong's 6: </a> </span><span class="str2">To wander away, lose oneself, to perish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">all</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל־</span> <span class="translit">(kāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">memory of them.</span><br /><span class="heb">זֵ֖כֶר</span> <span class="translit">(zê·ḵer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2143.htm">Strong's 2143: </a> </span><span class="str2">A memento, recollection, commemoration</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/26-14.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 26:14 The dead shall not live (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/26-13.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 26:13"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 26:13" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/26-15.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 26:15"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 26:15" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>