Isaiah 25:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Quoted in 1 Corinthians 15:54 in support of the coming resurrection.

Swallow up death in victory - completely and permanently (so the Hebrew idiom, laanetsach (H5331), means, Jeremiah 3:5; Lamentations 5:20 - literally, in victory. The English version rightly, 'forever') 'abolish' (Hosea 13:14; 2 Timothy 1:10; Revelation 20:14; Revelation 21:4: cf. Genesis 2:17 with 3:22).

The rebuke of his people - (Isaiah 66:5: cf. Mark 8:38; Hebrews 11:26, "the reproach of Christ.")

Isaiah 25:8

8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.