Discovery BoxIsaiah 25:8 
Context25:8 he will swallow up death permanently. 1
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! 2
Isaiah 60:21
Context60:21 All of your people will be godly; 3
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. 4
1 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.
2 tn Heb “has spoken” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
3 tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”
4 tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”
