Isaiah 25:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken it.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בִּלַּ֤ע הַמָּ֙וֶת֙ לָנֶ֔צַח וּמָחָ֨ה אֲדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה דִּמְעָ֖ה מֵעַ֣ל כָּל־פָּנִ֑ים וְחֶרְפַּ֣ת עַמּ֗וֹ יָסִיר֙ מֵעַ֣ל כָּל־הָאָ֔רֶץ כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבֵּֽר׃

Transliteration

billaʿ the-māwet to-lāneṣaḥ ûmāḥāh ʾădōnāy YHWH dimʿāh from-upon all-pānîm wĕḥerpat ʿammô yāsîr from-upon all-the-ʾāreṣ kî YHWH dibbēr

Grammar Details

• *billaʿ*: verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will swallow up
• *māwet*: noun, masculine singular - death
• *lāneṣaḥ*: preposition with noun - forever, to victory
• *ûmāḥāh*: conjunction with verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and he will wipe away
• *ʾădōnāy*: noun, divine title - Lord, Master
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *dimʿāh*: noun, feminine singular - tear, weeping
• *pānîm*: noun, masculine plural - faces
• *wĕḥerpat*: conjunction with noun, feminine singular construct - and reproach of
• *ʿammô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his people
• *yāsîr*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will remove
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - earth, land
• *kî*: conjunction - for, because
• *dibbēr*: verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he has spoken

Word Meanings

• *billaʿ hammāwet lāneṣaḥ*: he will swallow up death forever/to victory
• *māḥāh dimʿāh*: wipe away tears, remove weeping
• *ʾădōnāy YHWH*: Lord YHWH, Master Yahweh
• *ḥerpat ʿammô*: reproach of his people, disgrace of his nation
• *yāsîr mēʿal kol-hāʾāreṣ*: he will remove from all the earth/land

Referenced Verses

• Rev 21:4 : 4 and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, {G2071} nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.
• 1 Cor 15:54 : 54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
• Hos 13:14 : 14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
• Rev 7:17 : 17 for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life: and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.
• 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed [are ye]; because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you.
• Isa 35:10 : 10 and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
• Isa 37:3 : 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
• Isa 51:11 : 11 And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
• Isa 54:4 : 4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth; and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.
• Mal 3:17-18 : 17 And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, [even] mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
• Ps 69:9 : 9 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
• Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples, 51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
• Isa 30:19 : 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thou shalt weep no more; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer thee.
• Isa 30:26 : 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the hurt of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
• Matt 5:11-12 : 11 Blessed are ye when [men] shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.
• 1 Cor 15:26 : 26 The last enemy that shall be abolished is death.
• Isa 60:15 : 15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
• Isa 61:7 : 7 Instead of your shame [ye shall have] double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be unto them.
• Isa 65:19 : 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.
• Isa 66:5 : 5 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hate you, that cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let Jehovah be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it is they that shall be put to shame.
• Rev 20:14 : 14 And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire.
• 2 Tim 1:10 : 10 but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
• Heb 2:14-15 : 14 Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.