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)

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19 Your dead shall live; their corpses[a] shall rise.
    Wake up and sing for joy, dwellers of the dust,
for your dew is celestial dew,[b]
    and the earth will give birth to dead spirits.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:19 Literally “my corpse;” some manuscripts propose an emendation to the suffix to change it to third person masculine plural (“their corpses”), which makes better sense
  2. Isaiah 26:19 Literally “dew of light”
  3. Isaiah 26:19 Or “you make the land of Rephaim fall”