Isa 25:8 | NETfull | STEP | he will swallow up death permanently. The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

Isaiah 25:8

8 he will swallow up death permanently. ^{▼▼ The image of the Lord “swallowing” death would be especially powerful, for death was viewed in Canaanite mythology and culture as a hungry enemy that swallows its victims. See the note at 5:14.}
The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face,
and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth.
Indeed, the Lord has announced it! ^{▼▼ Heb “has spoken” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).}