Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord kills and makes alive;
He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

King James Version

The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

Holman Bible

The Lord brings death and gives life;
He sends some to Sheol, and He raises others up.

International Standard Version

The LORD kills and gives life, he brings people down to where the dead are and he raises them up.

A Conservative Version

LORD kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

American Standard Version

Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

Amplified


“The Lord puts to death and makes alive;
He brings down to Sheol (the grave) and raises up [from the grave].

Darby Translation

Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive; he bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah killing and giving life; bringing down to hades and bringing up.

King James 2000

The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down [to] Sheol and raises up.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD killeth and maketh alive; bringeth down to hell and fetcheth up again.

NET Bible

The Lord both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.

New Heart English Bible

"The LORD kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

The Emphasized Bible

Yahweh, doth kill, and make alive, - Taketh down to hades, and bringeth up:

Webster

The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

World English Bible

"Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

Youngs Literal Translation

Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

to the grave
שׁאל שׁאול 
Sh@'owl 
Usage: 65

References

Context Readings

Hannah's Triumphant Prayer

5 Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow. 6 The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up. 7 The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.

2 Kings 5:7

But the king of Israel, after reading the letter, was greatly troubled and said, Am I God, to give death and life? why does this man send a leper to me to be made well? is it not clear that he is looking for a cause of war?

Isaiah 26:19

Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

Revelation 1:18

And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.

1 Samuel 20:3

But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you; so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him; but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between me and death.

Job 5:18

For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.

Psalm 68:20

Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

Psalm 116:3

The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

Hosea 6:1-2

Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

Jonah 2:2-6

In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

John 5:25-29

Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

2 Corinthians 1:9-10

Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:

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