Verse 8

Isaiah 51:8

Bible in Basic English

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8 For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.

Original Language Text

hebrew

כִּ֤י כַ/בֶּ֨גֶד֙ יֹאכְלֵ֣/ם עָ֔שׁ וְ/כַ/צֶּ֖מֶר יֹאכְלֵ֣/ם סָ֑ס וְ/צִדְקָתִ/י֙ לְ/עוֹלָ֣ם תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה וִ/ישׁוּעָתִ֖/י לְ/ד֥וֹר דּוֹרִֽים

English Translation

For like a garment they will eat, and like wool they will wear out; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation will be to all generations.

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Chapter 51 Context

1 Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock... Focus ↗

2 Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he w... Focus ↗

3 For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste plac... Focus ↗

4 Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me... Focus ↗

5 Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the s... Focus ↗

6 Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heav... Focus ↗

7 Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of t... Focus ↗

8 For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but m...

9 Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long... Focus ↗

10 Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the... Focus ↗

11 Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eter... Focus ↗

12 I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an e... Focus ↗

13 And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and th... Focus ↗

14 The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underwo... Focus ↗

15 For I am the Lord your God (Elohim), who makes the sea calm when its waves are thundering: the Lord... Focus ↗

16 And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the he... Focus ↗

17 Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting... Focus ↗

18 She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of tak... Focus ↗

19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from... Focus ↗

20 Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment... Focus ↗

21 So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine: Focus ↗

22 This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God (Elohim) who takes up the cause of his peopl... Focus ↗

23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you;... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Isaiah
Chapter: Chapter 51 (23 verses)
Version: Bible in Basic English

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