Isaiah 26:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

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  • Isa 8:19 : 19 And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?
  • Isa 10:3 : 3 And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?
  • Isa 14:19-22 : 19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot. 20 As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man. 21 Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places. 22 For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.
  • Isa 26:19 : 19 Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.
  • Isa 51:12-13 : 12 I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass? 13 And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?
  • Hab 2:18-20 : 18 What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice? 19 A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it. 20 But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.
  • Matt 2:20 : 20 Saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: because they who were attempting to take the young child's life are dead.
  • Rev 18:2-3 : 2 And he gave a loud cry, saying, Babylon the great has come down from her high place, she has come to destruction and has become a place of evil spirits, and of every unclean spirit, and a hole for every unclean and hated bird. 3 For through the wine of the wrath of her evil desires all the nations have come to destruction; and the kings of the earth made themselves unclean with her, and the traders of the earth had their wealth increased by the power of her evil ways.
  • Rev 19:19-21 : 19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, come together to make war against him who was seated on the horse and against his army. 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire. 21 And the rest were put to death with the sword of him who was on the horse, even the sword which came out of his mouth: and all the birds were made full with their flesh.
  • Rev 20:5 : 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life again till the thousand years were ended. This is the first coming back from the dead.
  • Exod 14:30 : 30 So that day the Lord gave Israel salvation from the hands of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea's edge.
  • Deut 4:28 : 28 There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.
  • Ps 9:6 : 6 You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.
  • Ps 106:28 : 28 And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.

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  • Isa 14:19-21
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    19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

    20 As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

    21 Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

  • Ps 9:5-6
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    5 You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.

    6 You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

  • 5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

  • 13 O Lord, our God, other lords than you have had rule over us; but in you only is our salvation, and no other name will we take on our lips.

  • 15 You have made the nation great, O Lord, you have made it great; glory is yours: you have made wide the limits of the land.

  • 20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

  • 15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

  • 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • 5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

  • 17 The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.

  • 15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

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    5 For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

  • 4 Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

  • Isa 14:9-10
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    9 The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

    10 They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

  • 12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • 14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

  • 18 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • 6 Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:

  • 14 The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.

  • 16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

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    20 Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

    21 I will make you a thing of fear, and you will come to an end: even if you are looked for, you will not be seen again for ever, says the Lord.

  • 19 Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

  • Jer 8:2-3
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    2 And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

    3 And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies.

  • 39 I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

  • 24 And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living, and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing of fear to all flesh.

  • 26 I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:

  • 32 You will be food for the fire; your blood will be drained out in the land; there will be no more memory of you: for I the Lord have said it.

  • 27 And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.

  • 5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

  • 20 Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

  • 38 And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

  • 16 The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land.

  • 6 For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.

  • 5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

  • 26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • 5 Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

  • 2 They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

  • 10 Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.

  • 4 They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.

  • 17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste the nations and their lands,

  • 24 He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.

  • 23 Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.

  • 17 Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;

  • 15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.