Isaiah 26:13-21 ▼

13 O YHWH our God, lords besides You have ruled over us; only by You we make mention of Your name.

14 Those being dead will not live; the Rephaim will not rise; therefore you have attended to and destroyed them, and You have made to perish all memory of them.

15 You have added to the nation, O YHWH; You have added to the nation, You are glorified; You have expanded all the borders of the land.

16 O YHWH, in the distress they visited You; they poured out a whispering with Your discipline upon them.

17 Like a pregnant woman drawing near to giving birth writhes and cries out in pain, so have we been before Your face, O YHWH.

18 We were pregnant; we writhed; we gave birth as if to the wind; we have not accomplished salvation on earth, and those dwelling in the world have not fallen.

19 Your dead will live—my corpse they rise! Awake and sing out, O dwellers of the dust! For a dew of light is your dew, and the earth, she will cast out the Rephaim.

20 Go, my people, come into your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself a little while, until His anger has passed by.

21 For behold, YHWH is coming forth from His place to punish the iniquity of those dwelling in the earth! And the earth will uncover her bloodshed and she will not cover anymore over her slain.