The moth shall eat them (comp. Isaiah 50:1-11: 9). If men themselves never wholly pass away (see the comment on Isaiah 51:6), yet it is otherwise with their judgments. These perish absolutely, disappear, and are utterly forgotten.
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Isaiah 51:8
Isaiah 51:8
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