Isaiah 51 · Verse 8

Isaiah 51:8

For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Isaiah 51:8, King James Version

Isaiah 51:8 in other translations

BSBFor the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
WEBFor the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
ASVFor the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.
YLTFor as a garment eat them doth a moth, And as wool eat them doth a worm, And My righteousness is to the age, And My salvation to all generations.
DARBYFor the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
BBEFor like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.
WebsterFor the moth shall eat them like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

What does Isaiah 51:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. (See on Is 50:9; Job 4:18-20). Not that the moth eats men up, but they shall be destroyed by as insignificant instrumentality as the moth that eats a garment.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 51:4-8

The gospel of Christ shall be preached and published. How shall we escape if we neglect it? There is no salvation without righteousness. The soul shall, as to this world, vanish like smoke, and the body be thrown by like a worn-out garment. But those whose happiness is in Christ's righteousness and salvation, will have the comfort of it when time and days shall be no more. Clouds darken the sun, but do not stop its…

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Isaiah 51:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֤יkiforH3588
כַבֶּ֙גֶד֙kha.Be.gedlike <the> garmentH899
יֹאכְלֵ֣םyokh.Lemit will eat themH398
עָ֔שׁ'AshmothH6211
וְכַצֶּ֖מֶרve.kha.Tze.merand like <the> woolH6785
יֹאכְלֵ֣םyokh.Lemit will eat themH398
סָ֑סSasclothes-mothH5580
וְצִדְקָתִי֙ve.tzid.ka.Tiand righteousness myH6666
לְעוֹלָ֣םle.'o.Lamfor everH5769
תִּֽהְיֶ֔הtih.Yehit will beH1961
וִישׁוּעָתִ֖יvi.shu.'a.Tiand salvation myH3444
לְד֥וֹרle.Dorto a generation ofH1755
דּוֹרִֽים\׃\ \סdo.RimgenerationsH1755

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Cross references for Isaiah 51:8

  • Isaiah 51:6

    Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

  • Isaiah 50:9

    Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

  • Isaiah 66:24

    And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

  • Hosea 5:12

    Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

  • Luke 1:50

    And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.

  • Job 4:19

    How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

  • Job 13:28

    And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

  • Isaiah 45:17

    But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

  • Isaiah 46:13

    I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the moth.
50:9; 66:24; Job 4:19; 13:28; Ho 5:12
my righteousness.
6; 45:17; 46:13; Lu 1:50

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Isaiah 51:7

    Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

  • Isaiah 51:8

    For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

  • Isaiah 51:9

    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

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Isaiah 51:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Porque como á vestidura los comerá polilla, como á lana los comerá gusano; mas mi justicia permanecerá perpetuamente, y mi salud por siglos de siglos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		car la teigne les rongera comme un vêtement, et le ver les rongera comme de la laine; mais ma justice sera à toujours, et mon salut, de génération en génération.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Denn wie ein Kleid wird sie verzehren die Motte, und wie Wolle sie verzehren die Schabe; aber meine Gerechtigkeit wird in Ewigkeit sein, und mein Heil durch alle Geschlechter hindurch.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		sicut enim vestimentum, sic comedet eos vermis, et sicut lanam, sic devorabit eos tinea: salus autem mea in sempiternum erit, et justitia mea in generationes generationum.