Isaiah 25:8 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 25:6-8

If we suppose (as many do) that this refers to the great joy which there should be in Zion and Jerusalem when the army of the Assyrians was routed by an angel, or when the Jews were released out of their captivity in Babylon, or upon occasion of some other equally surprising deliverance, yet we cannot avoid making it to look further, to the grace of the gospel and the glory which is the crown and consummation of that grace; for it is at our resurrection through Christ that the saying here... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death in victory ,.... Or, "for ever" F7 לנצח "in sempiternum", Munster, Pagninus, Montanus; "in aeternum", Piscator. . 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... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death - He, by the grace of God, will taste death for every man. Hebrews 2:9 . Probably, swallow up death, and taste death, in both these verses, refer to the same thing: Jesus dying instead of a guilty world. These forms of speech may refer to the punishment of certain criminals; they were obliged to drink a cup of poison. That cup which every criminal in the world must have drunk, Jesus Christ drank for them; and thus he swallowed up death: but as he rose again from... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:1-8

Hymn of praise to Jehovah. I. THE PERSONAL APPROPRIATION OF GOD . This is one of the great marks of personal, spiritual religion. Other nations have known their gods as leaders in war, protectors of hearth and home; it was reserved for Israel and for Christianity to think of the High and Holy One as tenanting the heart and soul of the believer. Jehovah is not only "my father's God,"—this would be merely traditional religion; but "my God," "my Salvation,"—this is personal religion... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:1-12

ISAIAH 'S SONG OF PRAISE ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GOD 'S KINGDOM . AS in Isaiah 12:1-6 , after describing the first setting up of Christ's kingdom and the call of the Gentiles, the prophet broke out into song, through joy at the tidings he was commissioned to announce, so now, having proclaimed the final establishment of the same kingdom in the heavenly Zion, he is again carried away by the sense of exultant gladness into a fresh Lobgesang , which he utters in his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:1-12

The place of thanksgiving in the religious life. It is generally agreed by Christians that the religious life embraces a considerable number of separate duties of a strictly religious character. Among these the first place is ordinarily assigned to prayer; the second to reading of the Scriptures; the third, perhaps, to meditation; and so forth. But it is not always, or indeed very often, that a distinct position, or a very prominent position, is assigned to praise and thanksgiving. Prayer is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:6-8

The blessings of the final state are now touched upon, as a special subject for thanksgiving. They are not enumerated; but a certain number are set forth, as specimens from which we may form a conception of the general condition of the "saved." These are: read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death in victory ; rather, he will abolish death forever . Hosea, a contemporary, was inspired to write! "Will ransom Israel from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction" ( Hosea 13:14 ); but otherwise this was the first announcement that death was to disappear and to cease to be a possibility. It was an enormous advance on the dim and vague conceptions of a future life hitherto current... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:8

Christ's conquest of death. "He will swallow up death in victory." Here the fullness of Isaiah's evangelical prophecy begins to break forth. In the fourth verse he has described Jehovah as "a Strength to the poor, a Strength to the needy in his distress, a Refuge from the storm, a Shadow from the heat;" and all this, he says, God has been. Human history will endorse the record. But he will be more to men than all this! Death, that dogs men's footsteps and darkens even their days with fear;... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:8

The supreme victory. "He will swallow up death in victory." The terms of the text are not satisfied by anything less than the gospel of the grace of God; that, and that alone, can be truly said to swallow up death. It is only Jesus Christ who can be said to have "abolished death" ( 2 Timothy 1:10 ). This is the supreme victory. Great conquests have been gained in other fields: in geographical research—discovery of America, penetration of Africa, etc.; in the useful arts—printing,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 25:6-8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 25:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 25:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:1-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:1-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:6-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 25:8

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