Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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 The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished. 6 Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up. 7 Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:39

See ye, now, that I -- I am He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer,

2 Kings 5:7

And it cometh to pass, at the king of Israel's reading the letter, that he rendeth his garments, and saith, 'Am I God, to put to death and to keep alive, that this one is sending unto me to recover a man from his leprosy? for surely know, I pray you, and see, for he is presenting himself to me.'

Isaiah 26:19

Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs is thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.

Revelation 1:18

and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

1 Samuel 20:3

And David sweareth again, and saith, 'Thy father hath certainly known that I have found grace in thine eyes, and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; and yet, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, but -- as a step between me and death.'

Job 5:18

For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.

Psalm 68:20

God Himself is to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.

Psalm 116:3

Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

Hosea 6:1-2

'Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

Jonah 2:2-6

And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

Matthew 12:40

for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

John 5:25-29

Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

2 Corinthians 1:9-10

but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

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