Isaiah 25:8

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 

Ps 69:9; Ps 89:50,51; Isa 30:26; Isa 35:10; Isa 37:3; Isa 54:4; Isa 60:15; Isa 61:7; Isa 66:5; Ho 13:14; Mal 3:17,18; Mt 5:11,12; 1Co 15:26,54; 2Ti 1:10; Heb 2:14,15; 1Pe 4:14; Re 7:17; Re 20:14; Re 21:4

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).