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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.

KJV

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.

Vulgate

ὡς γὰρ ἱμάτιον βρωθήσεται ὑπὸ χρόνου, καὶ ὡς ἔρια βρωθήσεται ὑπὸ σητός, ἡ δὲ δικαιοσύνη μου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἔσται, τὸ δὲ σωτήριόν μου εἰς γενεὰς γενεῶν.

LXX

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 unto all generations.

ASV

כִּ֤י כַ/בֶּ֨גֶד֙ יֹאכְלֵ֣/ם עָ֔שׁ וְ/כַ/צֶּ֖מֶר יֹאכְלֵ֣/ם סָ֑ס וְ/צִדְקָתִ/י֙ לְ/עוֹלָ֣ם תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה וִ/ישׁוּעָתִ֖/י לְ/ד֥וֹר דּוֹרִֽים

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

א
'
noun · 12×
ו
v
noun · 218×
י
y
noun · 73×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
כֶ֔ם
km
noun · 164×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
verb · 811×
סָ֑ס
ss
noun · 1×
עוֹלָֽם
'vlm
noun · 427×
צְדָקָ֖ה
tsdqh
noun · 157×
צֶ֥מֶר
tsmr
noun · 16×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Chapter 9.—Of Hell, and the Nature of Eternal Punishments. So then what God by His prophet has said of the everlasting punishment of the damned shall come to pass—shall without fail come to pass,—“their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched.”15051505 Isa. lxvi. 24. In order to impress this upon us most forcibly, the Lord Jesus Himself, when ordering us to cut…

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 9:9 — (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
  • Acts 12:23 — And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
  • Dan 9:24 — Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting right
  • Hab 3:6 — He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
  • Hos 5:12 — Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
  • Hos 5:12 — Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
  • Isa 45:17 — But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 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 li
  • Isa 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 li
  • Isa 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 unt
  • Jas 5:2 — Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
  • 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 27:18 — He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
  • Luke 1:50 — And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
  • Ps 111:3 — His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
  • Ps 112:3 — Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
  • Ps 119:142 — Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
  • Ps 125:1 — They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
  • Rev 14:6 — And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
  • Rom 3:21 — But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
  • Rom 10:3 — For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.