Discovery BoxIsaiah 25:6-8 
Context25:6 The Lord who commands armies will hold a banquet for all the nations on this mountain. 1
At this banquet there will be plenty of meat and aged wine –
tender meat and choicest wine. 2
25:7 On this mountain he will swallow up
the shroud that is over all the peoples, 3
the woven covering that is over all the nations; 4
25:8 he will swallow up death permanently. 5
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! 6
1 sn That is, Mount Zion (see 24:23); cf. TEV; NLT “In Jerusalem.”
2 tn Heb “And the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts] will make for all the nations on this mountain a banquet of meats, a banquet of wine dregs, meats filled with marrow, dregs that are filtered.”
3 tn The Hebrew text reads, “the face of the shroud, the shroud over all the nations.” Some emend the second הַלּוֹט (hallot) to a passive participle הַלּוּט (hallut, “that is wrapped”).
4 sn The point of the imagery is unclear. Perhaps the shroud/covering referred to was associated with death in some way (see v. 8).
5 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.
6 tn Heb “has spoken” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
