Jesaja 25:8

8 Er wird den Tod verschlingen ewiglich; und der HERR HERR wird die Tränen von allen Angesichtern abwischen und wird aufheben alle Schmach seines Volks in allen Landen; denn der HERR hat's gesagt.

Jesaja 25:8 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 25:8

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 die more; nor of the conversion of the Jews, which will be as life from the dead; nor of the civil death of the witnesses, and of their rising, who afterwards will never die more, in that sense; but of a corporeal death: this Christ has swallowed up in victory, by dying on the cross, both with respect to himself, who will never die more, and with respect to his people, from whom he has abolished it as a penal evil; but it chiefly respects the resurrection state, or the personal coming of Christ, when the dead in him shall rise first, and shall never die more, there will be no more death, neither corporeal, spiritual, nor eternal to them; on them death shall have no power, in any shape: and then will this saying be brought about or fulfilled, as the apostle has interpreted it, ( 1 Corinthians 15:54 ) ( Revelation 21:4 ) ( 20:6 ) so the Jews

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 interpret it of the future state, when those that live again shall die no more, and there will be no death; and of the days of the Messiah, when the dead will be raised ^F9: and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces;
there are many things now that cause tears to fall from the saints, as their own sins, indwelling sin, unbelief, carnality, leanness, backslidings and the sins of others, the temptations of Satan, the hiding of God's face, afflictions of various sorts, and the persecutions of men; but these will be no more in the New Jerusalem state; and therefore God is said to wipe them away, having removed the cause of them, ( Revelation 7:17 ) ( Revelation 21:4 ) the allusion is to a tender parent, that takes a handkerchief, and wipes the face of its child, when it has been crying, and quiets and comforts it: and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the
earth;
all the reproaches and calumnies which have been cast upon them, and all misrepresentations of them, shall be taken away from them everywhere, and they will no longer lie under them, but stand clear of all false charges and accusations: or all persecution shall now cease; there shall be none to hurt them in all the holy mountain, ( Isaiah 11:9 ) : for the Lord hath spoken [it];
and it shall be done. The Targum is,

``for by the word of the Lord it is so decreed.''

F7 (xunl) "in sempiternum", Munster, Pagninus, Montanus; "in aeternum", Piscator.
F8 Gloss. in T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 94. Misna, Moed Katon, c. 3. sect. 9. Midrash Kohelet, fol. 61. 2.
F9 Zohar in Gen. fol. 73. 1. Shemot Rabba, sect. 20. fol. 131. 4.

Jesaja 25:8 In-Context

6 Und der HERR Zebaoth wird allen Völkern machen auf diesem Berge ein fettes Mahl, ein Mahl von reinem Wein, von Fett, von Mark, von Wein, darin keine Hefe ist.

7 Und er wird auf diesem Berge die Hülle wegtun, damit alle Völker verhüllt sind, und die Decke, mit der alle Heiden zugedeckt sind.

8 Er wird den Tod verschlingen ewiglich; und der HERR HERR wird die Tränen von allen Angesichtern abwischen und wird aufheben alle Schmach seines Volks in allen Landen; denn der HERR hat's gesagt.

9 Zu der Zeit wird man sagen: Siehe, das ist unser Gott, auf den wir harren, und er wird uns helfen; das ist der HERR auf den wir harren, daß wir uns freuen und fröhlich seien in seinem Heil.

10 Denn die Hand des HERRN ruht auf diesem Berge. Moab aber wird unter ihm zertreten werden, wie Stroh zertreten wird und wie Kot.