Your dead will live. Their corpses will arise. Y’all are to awake and sing, those who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.
Therefore you are to prophesy and tell them, ‘Lord YHWH says: “I am going to open your* graves and cause y’all to come up out of your* graves, my people. Then I will lead y’all into the land of Israel.
I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and the scrolls were opened. Another scroll was opened, which is the scroll of life. The dead were judged by what was written in the scrolls, according to their deeds.
“They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of those who have transgressed against me, for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all humankind.”
But YHWH is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.