11 translations · Hebrew
Isaiah 25:8
He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
Isaiah 25:8 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- He has swallowed up death in victory, || And Lord YHWH has wiped [the] tear from off all faces, || And He turns aside the reproach of His people from off all the earth, || For YHWH has spoken.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- He will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away all tears, and everywhere he will take away the humiliation suffered by his people. The Lord has spoken.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.
- DBY Darby Translation
- He will swallow up death in victory. 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.
- WBT Webster’s 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 will he remove from all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it .
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for the LORD has spoken it.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּלַּ֤ע | bil·la‘ | He will swallow up | H1104 בָּלַע to swallow up |
| הַמָּ֙וֶת֙ | ham·mā·weṯ | death | H4194 מָ֫וֶת death |
| לָנֶ֔צַח | lā·ne·ṣaḥ | forever | H5331 נֵ֫צַח perpetuity |
| וּמָחָ֨ה | ū·mā·ḥāh | will wipe away | H4229 מָחָה to wipe |
| אֲדֹנָ֧י | ’ă·ḏō·nāy | The Lord | H136 אֲדֹנָי Lord |
| יְהוִ֛ה | Yah·weh | GOD | H3069 יְהֹוִה YHWH/God |
| דִּמְעָ֖ה | dim·‘āh | the tears | H1832 דִּמְעָה tears |
| מֵעַ֣ל | mê·‘al | from | H5921 עַל upon |
| כָּל־ | kāl- | every | H3605 כֹּל all |
| פָּנִ֑ים | pā·nîm | face | H6440 פָּנֶה face: before |
| וְחֶרְפַּ֣ת | wə·ḥer·paṯ | the disgrace | H2781 חֶרְפָּה reproach |
| עַמּ֗וֹ | ‘am·mōw | of His people | H5971 עַם people |
| יָסִיר֙ | yā·sîr | and remove | H5493 סוּר to turn aside: remove |
| מֵעַ֣ל | mê·‘al | from | H5921 עַל upon |
| כָּל־ | kāl- | the whole | H3605 כֹּל all |
| הָאָ֔רֶץ | hā·’ā·reṣ | earth | H776 אֶ֫רֶץ land: country/planet |
| כִּ֥י | kî | For | H3588 כִּי for |
| יְהוָ֖ה | Yah·weh | the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| דִּבֵּֽר׃פ | dib·bêr | has spoken | H1696 דָבַר to speak: speak |
Related verses
- Revelation 21:4
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
- Revelation 7:17
for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:54
But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
- Hosea 13:14
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
- 1 Corinthians 15:26
The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
- Isaiah 35:10
The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
- Revelation 20:14
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
- 2 Timothy 1:10
but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
- Isaiah 30:26
Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
- Malachi 3:17–18
They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
9 It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
10 For in this mountain Yahweh’s hand will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
Read all of Isaiah 25 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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