Parallel Verses

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].

Bible in Basic English

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

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 have hired themselves out for food. The hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven. She who has had many sons has languished. 6 The Lord kills and makes alive;
He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
7 Jehovah takes away and He gives riches. He brings low and lifts up high.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I, even I, am he. There is no god besides me! It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heals. There is no one who can deliver from my hand.

2 Kings 5:7

The king of Israel read the letter and tore his clothes and said: How can the king of Syria expect me to cure this man? Does he think that I am God, with the power of life and death? It is plain that he is trying to start a quarrel with me!

Isaiah 26:19

But your dead will live. Their bodies will rise. You, who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

Revelation 1:18

I am alive! I was dead and, behold, I am alive forever, Amen. I have the keys of death and the grave.

1 Samuel 20:3

David again said: Your father has certainly known that I have found favor in your eyes. He said: Do not let Jonathan know this, that he not be grieved. And yet, as Jehovah lives, and you live, there is only a step between death and me.

Job 5:18

God inflicts wounds and he bandages. He strikes but his hands make you well.

Psalm 68:20

Our God is the God of deliverance. Jehovah of Hosts is our escape from death.

Psalm 116:3

The ropes of death became tangled around me. The fear of the grave took hold of me. I experienced pain and agony.

Hosea 6:1-2

Come, and let us return to Jehovah. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us. He has wounded us but he will bandage us.

Jonah 2:2-6

He said: I called to Jehovah because of my affliction. And he answered me! Out of the belly of the grave I cried and you heard my voice.

Matthew 12:40

Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth [the grave].

John 5:25-29

Truly I tell you, the hour is coming when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear (listen) (understand) will live.

John 11:25

Jesus said: I am the resurrection and the life. He who puts active faith in me will live, even if he dies.

2 Corinthians 1:9-10

Yes, we have had the sentence of death within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

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