⁵⁵ “Where, O death, is your victory?
    Where, O death, is your sting?”^[b](B)

¹⁴ “I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;^(A)
    I will redeem them from death.^(B)
Where, O death, are your plagues?
    Where, O grave, is your destruction?^(C)

“I will have no compassion,

⁸     he will swallow up death^(A) forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears^(B)
    from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace^(C)
    from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.^(D)