Isaiah 51:8 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“For 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 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Isaiah 51:8 in 6 Bible Translations
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Isaiah 51:8 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.””
Isaiah 51:8 — World English Bible
Isaiah 51:8 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“For 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 unto all generations. ”
Isaiah 51:8 — American Standard Version
Isaiah 51:8 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“For as a garment eat them doth a moth, And as wool eat them doth a worm, And My righteousness is to the age, And My salvation to all generations.”
Isaiah 51:8 — Young's Literal Translation
Isaiah 51:8 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“For 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 — Darby Translation
Isaiah 51:8 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“For the mothe shall eate them vp like a garment, and the worme shall eate them like wool: but my righteousnesse shalbe for euer, and my saluation from generation to generation.”
Isaiah 51:8 — Geneva Bible
Isaiah 51:8 in Context — 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.
7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
8 For 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.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
What Does Isaiah 51:8 Mean?
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