Isaiah 25:8

25:8 he will swallow up death permanently.

The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face,

and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth.

Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

Isaiah 60:21

60:21 All of your people will be godly;

they will possess the land permanently.

I will plant them like a shoot;

they will be the product of my labor,

through whom I reveal my splendor.


sn The image of the Lord “swallowing” death would be especially powerful, for death was viewed in Canaanite mythology and culture as a hungry enemy that swallows its victims. See the note at 5:14.

tn Heb “has spoken” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”

tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”