Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For worms shall eat them as a garment, and moths shall devour them as it were wool. But my righteousness shall continue ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
New American Standard Bible
And the
But My
And My salvation to all generations.”
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
and the worm will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness will last forever,
and My salvation for all generations.
International Standard Version
For moths will eat them up just like a garment, and worms will devour them like wool; but my deliverance will last forever, and my salvation to all generations.
A Conservative Version
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. But my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
“For the moth will eat them like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness and justice [faithfully promised] will exist forever,
And My salvation to all generations.”
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
For the moth shall eat them as a garment, and as wool shall the moth eat them: and my justice shall be forever, and my salvation to generation of generations.
King James 2000
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For a moth will eat them like garments; a moth will devour them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for {generation after generation}."
Modern King James verseion
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but My righteousness shall be forever, and My salvation from generation to generation.
NET Bible
For a moth will eat away at them like clothes; a clothes moth will devour them like wool. But the vindication I provide will be permanent; the deliverance I give will last."
New Heart English Bible
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
The Emphasized Bible
For like a garment, shall they be eaten of the moth, And like wool, shall they he eaten of the larva; But, my righteousness, unto times age-abiding shall continue, And, my salvation, unto the remotest generation.
Webster
For the moth shall eat them 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.
World English Bible
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Themes
Moth » Destructive of garments
Moths » Illustrative » (eating a garment,) of God's judgments
Salvation » The salvation of the lord
Salvation » Described as » From generation to generation
The fruit of righteousness » The righteousness of the lord
Topics
Interlinear
Beged
`owlam
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 51:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Comforts Zion
7 Hearken unto me ye that know righteousness, and so let the people that have my law in their hearts. Fear not the rebukes of man neither faint for their blasphemies. 8 For worms shall eat them as a garment, and moths shall devour them as it were wool. But my righteousness shall continue ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. 9 Wake up, wake up, and be strong: O thou arm of the LORD: wake up, like as in times past, ever, and since the world began.
Cross References
Isaiah 50:9
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.
Isaiah 51:6
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.
Isaiah 66:24
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.
Job 4:19
How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?
Job 13:28
Whereas I, notwithstanding, must consume like as a foul carrion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.
Isaiah 45:17
But Israel shall be saved in the LORD, which is the everlasting salvation: They shall not come to shame nor confusion, world without end.
Isaiah 46:13
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.
Hosea 5:12
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as a caterpillar.
Luke 1:50
And his mercy is always on them that fear him, throughout all generations.