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.
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Gill's Exposition
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment,.... Either these reproaches, or the persons that reproach; as a garment is eaten by the moth, secretly, slowly, surely, and at last completely, so that…
Barnes' Notes
For the moth - (see Isa 50:9). The idea is, that they shall be consumed as the moth eats up a garment; or rather, that the moth itself shall consume them as it does a garment: that is, that they were…
Both these proclamations, as I may call them, end alike with an assurance of the perpetuity of God's righteousness and his salvation; and therefore we put them together, both being designed for the…
Cambridge Bible
For the moth &c. See again ch. Isa 50:9; another indication that the Servant is the type of the true Israel, and hence an example to individual Israelites.
The word rendered "worm" (ṣâṣ, cf. the…
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