Isaiah 28:19

Whenever 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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From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

In Context

18Your 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

20For the bed is too short for a man to stretch out on, and the blanket too narrow for him to wrap himself in.” 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 3:11Yahweh said to Samuel, “See, I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

2 Kings 18:13Then in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

2 Kings 24:2Yahweh sent against Jehoiakim bands of Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites; he sent them against Judah to destroy it. This was in conformity with the word of Yahweh that had been spoken through his servants the prophets.

Job 41:9See, the hope of anyone who does that is a lie; 1 will not anyone be thrown down to the ground just by the sight of him? 1

Isaiah 33:7Look, their envoys cry in the streets; the diplomats hoping for peace weep bitterly. 1

Isaiah 37:3They said to him, “Hezekiah says, 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to give birth to her child.

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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