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.
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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.
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.
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.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
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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…
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