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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up... — The verb is the same as the “destroy” of Isaiah 25:7. The words are an echo of the earlier promise of Hosea 13:14. They are, in their turn, re-echoed in the triumph-anthem of St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:54. The clause, “the Lord God shall wipe away tears,” is in like manner reproduced in Revelation 7:17; Revelation 21:4.

The rebuke of his people... — The taunt to which they were exposed in the time of their affliction, when the heathen took up their proverb of reproach and asked, “Where is now their God?” (Psalms 79:10).

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See also Isaiah 25:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 25:8. _HE WILL SWALLOW UP DEATH_] He, by the grace of God, will taste death for every man. Hebrews 2:9. Probably, _swallow up death_, and _taste death_, in both these verses, refer to th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE WILL SWALLOW UP - This image is probably taken from a whirlpool or maelstrom in the ocean that absorbs all that comes near it. It is, therefore, equivalent to saying he will destroy or remove Isaia...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 25 Israel's Praise and the Blessings of the Kingdom 1. _The praise of the delivered nation (Isaiah 25:1)_ 2. _The blessing for all nations during the Kingdom (Isaiah 25:6)_ 3. Israel rejoicin...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH'S FEAST TO ALL NATIONS IN MOUNT ZION. Here the apocalypse is resumed. The universalism of the passage is especially noteworthy. We have here one of the most catholic passages in the entire Old...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SWALLOW UP. Same word as "destroy" (Isaiah 25:7), so as to cause. thing to disappear and be no more. Compare Numbers 16:30; Psalms 69:15; Psalms 106:

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This section attaches itself directly to the concluding thought of ch. 24. The feast of Isaiah 25:6 may be regarded as a coronation-festival, inaugurating the reign of Jehovah on Mount Zion (Isaiah 24...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _He will swallow up … victory_ Rather: HE HATH ABOLISHED DEATH FOR EVER. Cf. 2 Timothy 1:10. The A.V. follows the rendering of St Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:54 (κατεπόθη ὁ θάνατος εἰς νῖκος), but "swall...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 892 THE GOSPEL A SOURCE OF RICHEST BLESSINGS Isaiah 25:6. In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees: of fat things fu...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND HE WILL DESTROY, &C.— Vitringa thinks, with the Chaldee, that the _covering_ and _vail_ here spoken of mean Death; that mighty ruler, who covers the whole race of _men_ with his black garment, and...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. JUBILATION FOR JEHOVAH'S POSTERITY TEXT: Isaiah 25:6-9 6 And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. Q...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    25:8 victory. (l-7) Or 'for ever,' as Job 4:20 . Psalms 9:6 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    IN VICTORY] so some early Gk. versions and St. Paul in quoting this passage (1 Corinthians 15:54). Heb. text has 'for ever' (RV). WILL WIPE, etc.] quoted Revelation 7:17; Revelation 21:4....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. THY COUNSELS, etc.] RV 'even counsels of old' (i.e. formed of old) 'in faithfulness and truth.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 25 A SONG TO PRAISE GOD V1 *Lord, you are my God. I will always give you great honou...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    This enormous party is because of the *Lord’s gift. He has been very kind to everybody in the world. There will be no more death. That was everybody’s fate, until Jesus overcame death (see 1 Corinthia...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בִּלַּ֤ע הַ מָּ֨וֶת֙ לָ נֶ֔צַח וּ מָחָ֨ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXX THE RESURRECTION Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 25:6 GRANTED the pardon, the justice, the Temple and the God, which the returning exiles now enjoyed, the possession of these only makes more painf...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SORROW TURNED TO GLADNESS Isaiah 25:1-12 Here is a song of thanksgiving at the fall of Babylon. When she fell, a sigh of relief passed over the whole world, and strong, terrible nations over which sh...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Immediately following this terrible description is a prophecy which, in the form of praise, declares the activity of Jehovah. The song first offers praise for judgment both in its procedure, as it des...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Ever. Hebrew, "he shall swallow up death in victory," 1 Corinthians xv. 54. Christ, by dying, conquered death, and rescued us from its power, if we do not voluntarily subject ourselves to it again. T...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This verse, if there were no other in the chapter, would at once decide that somewhat infinitely more important than the mere temporal deliverance of the Church from Babylon, was intended in this bles...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8._He hath destroyed death eternally. _(144) The Prophet continues his subject; for in general he promises that there will be perfect happiness under the reign of Christ, and, in order to express this...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 25 AND 26. Chapter s 25 and 26 take the form of a song, in which the effect of God's intervention is celebrated. Let us observe its principal subjects. God is...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HE WILL SWALLOW UP DEATH IN VICTORY,.... Or, "for ever" g. This is to be understood, not of a spiritual death, which is swallowed up in conversion, and of which those that are quickened shall never di...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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]. V...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He_ The Lord, expressed both in the foregoing and following words, even the Messiah, who is both God and man; _will swallow up death _ Shall, by his death, destroy the power of death, (Hebrews 2:14,)...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He will swallow up death in victory, completely abolish it with all its power, 2 Timothy 1:10; Revelation 20:14; AND THE LORD GOD WILL WIPE AWAY TEARS FROM OFF ALL FACES, Revelation 21:4; and the rebu...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THANKSGIVING FOR GOD'S BENEFITS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-8 The kind reception of repentant sinners, is often in the New Testament likened to a feast. The guests invited are all people, Gentiles as well as Jews. There is that in the gospel which strengthe...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE, the Lord, expressed both in the foregoing and following words, even the Messiah, who is God and man, will swallow up death; shall by his death destroy the power of death, as is said, HEBREWS 2:14;...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 25:8 up H1104 (H8765) death H4194 forever H5331 Lord H136 GOD H3069 away H4229 (H8804) tears...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH WILL BRING DOWN ‘THE CITY' WITH ALL ITS ANTI-GOD SIGNIFICANCE AND WILL UPHOLD HIS PEOPLE AND DEFEAT DEATH SO THAT THEY RISE AGAIN (ISAIAH 25:1). Analysis. a O Yahweh, you are my God, I will ex...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Triumphs of the coming Kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: God should be exalted by His people for the wonderful things He has done, and is to do, according to His promises,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 25:2. _A defenced city a ruin._ This city, in the next words, is called _a palace of strangers;_ therefore it was a great city. In the critics we find nothing but conjectures, as Samaria Ar of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He will swallow up death in victory_ DEATH SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY I. THE TEXT SETS CHRIST BEFORE US IN THE ATTITUDE OF A CONQUEROR OVER DEATH. “He shall swallow up death in victory,” it is said, an...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over an people_ THE REMOVAL OF THE COVERING I. THE GOSPEL DESTROYS THE COVERING WHICH HIDES THE TRUE NATURE OF MAN. The covering of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A feast of fat things_ THE GOSPEL FEAST I. THE FEAST. 1. Spiritual blessings are here, as in other places, set forth under the emblem of feast (Proverbs 9:2; Luke 14:16; Matthew 22:4). In Christ, a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 25:6 God relieves human sorrow. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 25:7 THE COVERING... THE VEIL. The pall of death hanging over all human activity under the curse (see Genesis 3:17). God will...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE GOSPEL FEAST Isaiah 25:6. _And in this mountain, &c._ The blessings of the Gospel are, with wise adaptation to our views and feelings, often compared to the objects in which men naturally take mo...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 25:1 ISAIAH'S SONG OF PRAISE ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GOD'S KINGDOM. AS in Isai

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    But O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth (Isaiah 25:1). In other words, "God, I'm goi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:26; 1 Corinthians 15:54; 1 Peter 4:14; 2 Timothy 1:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He — Christ will by his death destroy the power of death, take away the sting of the first death, and prevent the second. In victory — Heb. unto victory; so as to overcome it perfectly; which complete...

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