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19 
Your dead will live;
[a]Their dead bodies will rise.
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy!
For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural],
And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead.(A)

20 
Come, my people, enter your chambers
And shut your doors behind you;
Hide for a little while
Until the [Lord’s] [b]wrath is past.
21 
Listen carefully, the Lord is about to come out of His [heavenly] place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing];
The earth will reveal the [innocent] blood shed upon her
And will no longer cover her slain.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:19 So with some ancient versions; MT reads My dead body.
  2. Isaiah 26:20 Lit curse.

19 But your dead(A) will live, Lord;
    their bodies will rise—
let those who dwell in the dust(B)
    wake up and shout for joy—
your dew(C) is like the dew of the morning;
    the earth will give birth to her dead.(D)

20 Go, my people, enter your rooms
    and shut the doors(E) behind you;
hide(F) yourselves for a little while
    until his wrath(G) has passed by.(H)
21 See, the Lord is coming(I) out of his dwelling(J)
    to punish(K) the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood(L) shed on it;
    the earth will conceal its slain no longer.

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