Isaiah 51:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸For 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.

Isaiah 51:8 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Isaiah 50:9
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Isaiah 66:24
And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Hosea 5:12
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-8)

Both these proclamations, as I may call them, end alike with an assurance of the perpetuity of God’s righteousness and his salvation; and therefore we put them together, both being designed for the comfort of God’s people. Observe, I. Who they are to whom this comfort belongs: “ My people, and my nation, that I have set apart for myself, that own me and are owned by me.” Those are God’s people and…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. (See on Is 50:9; Job 4:18-20). Not that the moth eats men up, but they shall be destroyed by as insignificant instrumentality as the moth that eats a garment.