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19 Your dead shall live; their corpses[a] shall rise.
    Wake up and sing for joy, dwellers of the dust,
for your dew is celestial dew,[b]
    and the earth will give birth to dead spirits.[c]
20 Go, my people, enter into your chambers
    and shut your doors[d] behind you;
hide for a very little[e] while,
    until the wrath has passed over.
21 For look! Yahweh is about to come out from his place
    to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants[f] of the earth against him,
and the earth will disclose her blood
    and will no longer cover her slain.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:19 Literally “my corpse;” some manuscripts propose an emendation to the suffix to change it to third person masculine plural (“their corpses”), which makes better sense
  2. Isaiah 26:19 Literally “dew of light”
  3. Isaiah 26:19 Or “you make the land of Rephaim fall”
  4. Isaiah 26:20 The reading tradition (Qere) is singular
  5. Isaiah 26:20 Literally “a little a little”
  6. Isaiah 26:21 Hebrew “inhabitant”