Isaiah 28:18

And your brit (covenant) with mavet shall be annulled, 1 and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; 1 when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, 1 then ye shall be trodden down by it. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

In Context

17Mishpat also will I make as the measuring line, 1 and tzedakah to be the plumbline; 1 and the barad shall sweep away the refuge of kazav, 1 and the mayim shall overflow the hiding place. 1

19As often as it goeth forth it shall seize you; 1 for boker by boker shall it pass over, 1 by day and by night; 1 and it shall be a terror just to understand the message. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 2:15And upon every lofty migdal, 1 and upon every fortified chomah (wall), 1

Isaiah 8:8And he shall swirl into Yehudah; 1 he shall overflow and go over, 1 he shall reach even to the neck; 1 and the stretching out of his wings 1 shall fill the breadth of Thy eretz, O Immanu El. 1

Isaiah 28:3The ateret ge'ut (crown of pride), the shikkorei Ephrayim, 1 shall be trodden under foot; 1

Jeremiah 2:37Yea, thou shalt go forth from this, + 2:37 dependence on religiously entangling and compromising foreign allies 1 and thine hands upon thine head; 1 for Hashem hath rejected thy confidences, 1 and thou shalt not prosper in them.

Jeremiah 47:2Thus saith Hashem: Hinei, 1 waters rise up out of the north, 1 and shall be an overflowing flood, 1 and shall overflow the land, 1 and all that is therein; the Ir, 1 and them that dwell therein; then the adam shall cry, 1 and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. 1

Ezekiel 13:11Say unto them that plaster it with + 13:11 dissolving, useless mud-plaster that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing geshem; and great hailstones shall fall; and a ruach se'arot (storm wind) shall burst forth.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:15-23

Judgments Announced; The Corner-stone in Zion. ( b. c. 725.) 14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord , ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God , Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a… Read the whole commentary →

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