Isaiah 51:8

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Summary

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.

The moth

Hosea 5:12

My righteousness

Bible References

The moth

Behold, the LORD God standeth by me: what is he that can condemn me? Lo, they shall be all like as an old cloth, which the moths shall eat up.

And they shall go forth and look upon the carrions of them that have transgressed against me. For their worms shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and all flesh shall abhor them.

How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?

Whereas I, notwithstanding, must consume like as a foul carrion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.

Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as a caterpillar.

My righteousness

Lift up your eyes to heaven and behold the earth beneath. For heaven shall vanish away as smoke, and the earth shall wear away as a vesture, and the inhabiters thereof shall perish away after the same manner: but my salvation shall endure ever, and my righteousness shall not perish.

But Israel shall be saved in the LORD, which is the everlasting salvation: They shall not come to shame nor confusion, world without end.

I shall bring forth my righteousness. It is not far, and my health shall not tarry long away. I will lay health in Zion, and give Israel my glory.

And his mercy is always on them that fear him, throughout all generations.