² Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake:^(A) some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.^{(B) 3} Those who are wise^[a](C) will shine^(D) like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness,^(E) like the stars for ever and ever.^(F)

¹² Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.^{(A) 13} Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord,^(B) when I open your graves and bring you up from them.^{(C) 14} I will put my Spirit^(D) in you and you will live, and I will settle^(E) you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.^(F)’”

⁴ I saw thrones^(A) on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge.^(B) And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded^(C) because of their testimony about Jesus^(D) and because of the word of God.^(E) They^[a] had not worshiped the beast^(F) or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands.^(G) They came to life and reigned^(H) with Christ a thousand years. ⁵ (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.^{(I) 6} Blessed^(J) and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death^(K) has no power over them, but they will be priests^(L) of God and of Christ and will reign with him^(M) for a thousand years.