Isaiah 26:14 - Exposition

They are dead , etc.; literally. Dead , they shall not live ( i.e. return to life); deceased , they shall not arise . The power of the idol-gods is altogether passed away. It was for this end— therefore —that God had visited and destroyed them, and made their very memory to perish . How strange it seems that the "great gods" whom so many millions worshipped in former times—Bel, and Asshur, and Ammon, and Zeus, and Jupiter—should have passed so completely away as to be almost wholly forgotten!