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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 51:8

The moth... the worm. — The two words in Hebrew have the force of an emphatic assonance — ash and sâsh.

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See also Isaiah 51:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE MOTH - (see Isaiah 50:9). The idea is, that they shall be consumed as the moth eats up a garment; or rather, that the moth itself shall consume them as it does a garment: that is, that they we...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 51 Jehovah Encourages His Faithful People, the Remnant of Israel 1. _The call to remember Abraham (Isaiah 51:1)_ 2. _Zion to be comforted (Isaiah 51:3)_ 3. His righteousness near and His arm...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A HEARTENING CONSOLATION. Yahweh, in words that echo Isaiah 50:4, bids His people, who seek the victory which ever eludes them, consider their origin. Abraham was but one; yet He made him a great peop...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For the moth &c._ See again ch. Isaiah 50:9; another indication that the Servant is the type of the true Israel, and hence an example to individual Israelites. The word rendered "worm" (_ṣâṣ_, cf. t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 51:1-16. Encouragements addressed to true Israelites The strain of consolation, which was interrupted by the soliloquy of the Servant at ch. Isaiah 50:4, is now resumed, and is continued till...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In the hope of this everlasting salvation the true Israelites may well endure for a season the reproach of men....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 958 A DISSUASIVE FROM THE FEAR OF MAN 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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. RULE, CHAPTER 51 a. TURN TO JUSTICE TEXT: Isaiah 51:1-8 1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. THE MOTH SHALL EAT THEM...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1, 2. In the past God made Israel a great nation from a single ancestor, and that wonderful growth should be an encouragement to the righteous remnant now to believe in their restoration....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MY RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. as shown in faithfulness to My promises. 9-11. An appeal from Israel to Jehovah that He will show His power as of old at the exodus, that the exiles may return triumphantly to...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 51 ABRAHAM WAS YOUR EARLY RELATIVE V1 ‘Listen to me,’ says the *Lord. ‘You desire to l...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י כַ † בֶּ֨גֶד֙ יֹאכְלֵ֣ם עָ֔שׁ וְ...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “AWAKE, O ARM OF JEHOVAH!” Isaiah 51:1-11 This chapter is extremely dramatic. We are conscious that we are nearing a revelation of unparalleled sublimity. As we hear the thrice _Hearken_ in Isaiah 1:...

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

    Three messages to the faithful immediately follow. The first is a call to courage (verses Isa 51:1-8), in which they are charged to look back to Abraham, to look on to the nearness of God's activity,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is another gracious call of the Lord, in which the subject is carried to its height: for it is to such as have not only sought the Lord, and followed after his righteousness, but have also found...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8._But my righteousness shall continually endure. _Because the believing servants of God must endure many reproaches and slanders from the enemies of the word, the Prophet exhorts and encourages them...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 51 AND 52. The application is found in Chapter s 51 and 52 to the end of Verse 12 (Isaiah 52:1-12), and that to the remnant of Israel. In Isaiah 51:13 a fresh...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE MOTH SHALL EAT THEM UP LIKE A GARMENT,.... Either these reproaches, or the persons that reproach; as a garment is eaten by the moth, secretly, slowly, surely, and at last completely, so that i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 8. _For the moth sha...

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

    _Hearken, ye that know righteousness_ Who not only understand, but love and practise it; whose persons are justified, whose nature is renewed, and whose lives are subject to my laws. These seem to be...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CERTAINTY OF DELIVERANCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    for the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool, bring about their destruction, put them out of the way; BUT MY RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE FOREVER AND MY SALVATION FRO...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE MOTH SHALL EAT THEM UP; your reproachers shall be easily destroyed, and so God will revenge your cause upon them, and deliver you from their reproaches. LIKE WOOL; like a woollen garment, which is...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 51:8 moth H6211 up H398 (H8799) garment H899 worm H5580 eat H398 (H8799) wool H6785 righteousness...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S CALL TO HIS PEOPLE NOT TO FEAR MEN OR THEIR REPROACHES BECAUSE THEY WILL FADE AWAY WHILE GOD'S PEOPLE WILL GO ON FOR EVER (ISAIAH 51:7). Again, for the third time, He stresses the importance of...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 51 EXHORTATIONS TO THE PEOPLE TO RESPOND TO GOD. We now have here three remarkable calls to faithful Israel, ‘listen' (Isaiah 51:1) - ‘attend' (Isaiah 51:4) - ‘listen' (Isaiah 51:7). They have...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 51:1. _Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your f...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Final redemption of Israel and punishment of oppressors. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Although God's people are called upon to suffer much upon earth, they have an eternal cause to...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 51:4. _A law shall proceed from me._ The gospel law of liberty and love is here intended, as in Joel 2:31. No other law ever emanated from Jerusalem. Isaiah 51:5. _My righteousness is near._ Ch...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness_ CHRISTIANS ENCOURAGED AGAINST THE FEAR OF MAN I. THE PERSONS ADDRESSED. 1. Those who “know righteousness.” 2. They have the law of God in their heart....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hearken to Me_ THE THRICE “HEARKEN” These paragraphs are exceedingly dramatic. We become conscious that we are approaching a revelation of unparalleled sublimity which shall be in Scripture what he...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 51:7 The third incentive (see vv. Isaiah 51:1) is that, like the servant of the Lord, though believers are reviled, they will also be eternally vindicated....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 51:1 AN ADDRESS TO FAITHFUL ISRAEL, SUGGESTING TOPICS OF COMFORT. The address consists of three nearly equal strophes or stanzas, each commencing with a call, _Shim'u elai_,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Tonight we have a marvelous study as we look at Isaiah, Chapter s 51-55, in which the prophet sees so clearly the suffering and the rejection of God's provision for man in sending His Son to die for o...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hosea 5:12; Isaiah 45:17; Isaiah 46:13; Isaiah 50:9; Isaiah 51:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Like wool — Like a woollen garment, which is sooner corrupted by moths or such creatures, than linen....

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