4  ⁱThe earth mourns and withers;

the world languishes and withers;

the highest people of the earth languish.

8  ^vHe will swallow up death forever;

and ^wthe Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,

and ^xthe reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,

^yfor the Lord has spoken.

19  ^yYour dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.

You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!

For ^zyour dew is a dew of light,

and the earth will give birth to the dead.

6  ^jIn days to come¹ Jacob shall take root,

Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots

and fill the whole world with fruit.