Isaiah 26:19–20

Every witness, in order

1. 8th–6th century BC (by section; debated)

   The oracle as first spoken or written

   – No copy survives

   No original survives. The oldest copies of Isaiah are the Qumran scrolls: the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa-a, about 125 BC, nearly complete), 1QIsa-b (1Q8) and some twenty other fragmentary manuscripts.

2. c. 125 BC (palaeography; reported)

   Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa-a), Qumran Cave 1

   ✓ Contains this passageDescends, through lost copies, from The oracle as first spoken or written

   How the site knows this: Described from a published transcription of the manuscript. Described in the site's own words from Martin Abegg's transcription (ETCBC/CACCHT Dead Sea Scrolls dataset v2.0.5); the transcription itself is not reproduced. Photographs and DJD XXXII not yet checked.

   …they will awake and shout for joy, those who dwell in the dust

   Hebrew numbering: Isaiah 26:19–20. In v. 19 reads "they will awake and sing" (third person) where the Masoretic Text has the command "awake and sing!"; v. 20 follows the written (ketiv) forms of the Masoretic Text. Otherwise the differences are of spelling (fuller use of vowel letters) and small grammatical forms.

3. 1st century BC (reported)

   4QIsa-b (4Q56), Qumran Cave 4

   ◐ Contains part of itDescends, through lost copies, from The oracle as first spoken or written

   How the site knows this: Described from a published transcription of the manuscript. Described in the site's own words from Martin Abegg's transcription (ETCBC/CACCHT Dead Sea Scrolls dataset v2.0.5); the transcription itself is not reproduced. Photographs and DJD XXXII not yet checked.

   Hebrew numbering: Isaiah 26:19–20. A fragmentary copy: only parts of these verses survive, and in the transcription much of the passage is restored by the editors. It reads the command "awake," like the Masoretic Text.

4. 1st century AD; edition 2010s

   Hebrews 10:37 (Greek New Testament; library: Statistical Restoration text)

   ✓ Contains this passageUncertain relationship to the verse (which wording it followed is the question)

   How the site knows this: Read in the site's library text: the Greek New Testament editions in the library (Textus Receptus, Byzantine Textform, Statistical Restoration).

   “Ἔτι γὰρ μικρὸν ὅσον, ὅσον ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἥξει, καὶ οὐ χρονίσει.

   For yet a very little while, and the one who is coming will come and will not delay

   Combines the Greek of Isaiah 26:20 with Habakkuk 2:3. KJV: "For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry."

5. Jerome c. AD 400, from Hebrew; edition 1592

   Latin Vulgate (Clementine)

   ✓ Contains this passageTranslated from the Hebrew text Jerome used

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   Vivent mortui tui, interfecti mei resurgent. Expergiscimini, et laudate, qui habitatis in pulvere, quia ros lucis ros tuus, et terram gigantum detrahes in ruinam. Vade, populus meus, intra in cubicula tua; claude ostia tua super te, abscondere modicum ad momentum, donec pertranseat indignatio.

   Latin numbering: Isaiah 26:19–20. Jerome translated Isaiah from Hebrew (c. AD 400).

6. AD 1008

   Masoretic Text (Leningrad Codex)

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   יִֽחְי֣וּ מֵתֶ֔יךָ נְבֵלָתִ֖י יְקוּמ֑וּן הָקִ֨יצוּ וְרַנְּנ֜וּ שֹׁכְנֵ֣י עָפָ֗ר כִּ֣י טַ֤ל אוֹרֹת֙ טַלֶּ֔ךָ וָאָ֖רֶץ רְפָאִ֥ים תַּפִּֽיל׃ לֵ֤ךְ עַמִּי֙ בֹּ֣א בַחֲדָרֶ֔יךָ וּֽסְגֹ֥ר דלתיך דְּלָתְךָ֖ בַּעֲדֶ֑ךָ חֲבִ֥י כִמְעַט־רֶ֖גַע עַד־יעבור־יַעֲבָר־זָֽעַם׃

   Your dead will live, my corpses will rise. Awake and shout for joy, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is a dew of lights, and the earth will give birth to the shades (v. 19)

   Hebrew numbering: Isaiah 26:19–20.

7. 1611

   King James Bible

   ✓ Contains this passageTranslated from printed Masoretic Hebrew

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   Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

8. Greek translation c. 2nd century BC; French 1872

   Greek Isaiah (library: Giguet's French)

   ✓ Contains this passageTranslated from the Old Greek Isaiah

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   Les morts ressusciteront, et ceux qui sont dans leurs sépulcres se lèveront, et ceux qui sont sur la terre tressailliront de joie; car la rosée qui vient de vous est leur guérison, et la terre des impies périra. Va, mon peuple, entre dans ton appartement secret, ferme ta porte, cache-toi un peu, bien peu de temps, jusqu’à ce que la colère du Seigneur soit passée.

   Greek (digital file) numbering: Isaiah 26:19–20. Giguet's 1872 French of a printed Greek text (D check only); a C check needs Ziegler's Göttingen Isaiah or Rahlfs–Hanhart.