14 (A)The dead will not live, the [a]departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have (B)punished and destroyed them,
And You have eliminated all remembrance of them.
15 (C)You have increased the nation, Lord,
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have (D)extended all the borders of the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:14 Or shades

14 The dead do not live;
    dead spirits do not rise
because you have punished and destroyed them,
    and you have destroyed all memory of them.
15 You have added to the nation, Yahweh.
    You have added to the nation; you are honored.
    You have extended all the ends of the land.

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