Isaiah 26:14

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹²O LORD, You will establish peace for us, for, indeed, all that we have accomplished, You have done for us. ¹³O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion, but Your name alone do we confess. ¹⁴The 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.¹⁵You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have increased the nation. You are glorified. You have extended the borders of the land. ¹⁶O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer. ¹⁷As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, that is how we were in Your presence, O LORD. ¹⁸We were pregnant, we writhed in pain, we gave birth to wind. We have brought no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world. ¹⁹Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

Bible Verse Review
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dead: Isaiah 26:19, Isaiah 8:19, Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 51:13, Exodus 14:30, Psalms 106:28, Habakkuk 2:18-20, Matthew 2:20, Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:3, Revelation 19:19-21, Revelation 20:5

and made: Isaiah 14:19-22, Psalms 9:6, Psalms 109:13, Proverbs 10:7

Reciprocal: Job 7:18 - visit Job 13:12 - remembrances Job 24:20 - he shall be Ecclesiastes 9:5 - for the

Cross-References

Genesis 12:16
He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

Genesis 13:2
And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.

Genesis 26:13
and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

Genesis 26:14
He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 37:11
And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.

1 Samuel 18:9
And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

Job 1:3
and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

Job 5:2
For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Job 42:12
So the LORD blessed Job's latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Psalms 112:3
Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise,.... The above tyrannical lords, the kings of the earth and their mighty men, associates of the Romish antichrist, who shall be gathered together, and slain at the battle at Armageddon; these shall not live again in this world, nor rise from their graves, and return to their former state, power, and authority; or tyrannise over, molest, disturb, oppress, and persecute the people of God any more; though they shall live again at the end of the thousand years, and shall awake to everlasting shame and contempt, and come forth to the resurrection of damnation. The Targum is,

"they worship the dead, who do not live; and their mighty men, who shall not rise;''

and are opposed to the worshippers of the only Lord God:

therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish; or, "because thou hast visited", c. d for these words are a reason why they are irrecoverably lost, and shall not live in eternal life, or rise in the resurrection of the just; because God has visited them in wrath, destroyed them in and for their sins, with such an utter destruction, that they shall be remembered no more. This visitation will be at Armageddon, when the kings, and captains and great men will be slain; the beast and false prophet taken, and cast alive into the furnace of fire; and the rest will be killed by the sword, proceeding out of the mouth of Christ, Revelation 19:18. The Targum interprets it of God's casting the wicked into hell.

d לכן "propterea", V. L. Junius Tremellius "propterea quod", Piscator, De Dieu.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They 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 13:0; Isaiah 14:0)

They shall not live - They shall not again live, and be permitted to harass and enslave us.

They are deceased - Hebrew, רפאים r^epâ'iym - a name given to the shades or manes of the dead, from an idea that they were weak and powerless (see the notes at Isaiah 14:9-10; compare Psalms 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”; the word לכן lākên being used evidently in the sense of because that, as in Genesis 38:26; Numbers 11:31; Numbers 14:13; Psalms 42:7; Psalms 45:3. The declaration that follows is given as the reason why they were dead, and incapable of again injuring or annoying them.

Hast thou visited ... - (see the note at Isaiah 24:22) The word ‘visit’ here is used in the sense of to punish.

And made all their memory to perish - Hast blotted out their name; hast caused their celebrity to cease.