After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Parallel translations
- WEB After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.
- BSB After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
- NKJV After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.
- NASB “He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, That we may live before Him.
- NLT In just a short time he will restore us, so that we may live in his presence.
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Quick answer
After two days God will revive His people and on the third day raise them up to live before Him.
Overview
Using the pattern of "two days... third day," the people express hope in swift restoration and resurrection of national life. Christians have long seen here a foreshadowing of Christ's resurrection on the third day, by which true and lasting life before God is secured. Whether or not the original speakers grasped this, the verse's language of being raised to live before God finds its deepest fulfillment in the risen Lord.
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Kgs 20:5Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
- 1 Cor 15:4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
- Isa 26:19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
- Ezek 37:11–13Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
- Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
- Ps 30:4–5Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
- John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
- Gen 17:18And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
- Rom 14:8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
- Ps 61:7He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
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