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Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. 1 When the raging flood passes through, you will be overwhelmed by it. 1

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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

17I will make justice the measuring stick, and righteousness the plumbline. 1 Hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place. 1

19Whenever it passes through, it will overwhelm you, 1 and morning by morning it will pass through and by day and night it will come. 1 When the message is understood, it will cause terror. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 2:15and against every high tower, and against every impregnable wall, 1

Isaiah 8:8The River will sweep onward into Judah, flooding and passing on, until it reaches to your neck. 1 Its outstretched wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.” 1

Isaiah 28:3The proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot. 1

Jeremiah 2:37You will also go out from there dejected, with your hands on your head, 1 for Yahweh has rejected the ones whom you trusted, so you will not be helped by them.”

Jeremiah 47:2“Yahweh says this: See, floods of water are rising in the north. They will be like an overflowing river! 1 Then they will overflow the land and everything in it, its cities and its inhabitants! So everyone will shout for help, 1 and all the inhabitants of the land will lament. 1

Ezekiel 13:11Say to those who are whitewashing the wall, 'It will fall down; there will be a downpour of rain, and I will send hailstones to make it fall down, and a windstorm wind to break it down.

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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