Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 26:19

"Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead." — Isaiah 26:19 (ASV)

Thy dead men shall live–

We shall rise with all that belong to Christ at the first and blessed resurrection, and all our dead hopes and our dead expectations shall rise too.

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.

That note of resurrection comes in as a word of comfort to the most dispirited, the most despairing. As the dead shall live because of Christ, even so is there hope for you who are driven to a very death of despair. You cannot live by your own power; your hopes are all gone, dead and buried, and you yourself lie helpless and lost; but as the Lord will raise the dead from their graves, so will he give you hope, and bless and save you, if you come and trust in him.

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.

As the soft showers cause the buried bulbs to spring up, so God's gentle grace will fall on human hearts, and they will arise, though they seemed to be dead before; and at the last great day, the sound of the archangel's trumpet will be like a soft spring shower that brings up the flowers of the earth, and–

"When Christ his risen saints shall bring
From beds of dust, and silent clay,
To realms of everlasting day."