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18 And your covenant with death will be annulled,
    and your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
you will become a trampling place for the overwhelming flood when it passes through.
19     As often as it passes through,[a] it will take you,
for morning by morning[b] it will pass through,
    in the day and in the night,

and understanding the message will be only terror.”

20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on,[c]
    and the covering is too narrow when wrapping oneself.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:19 Literally “From enough his passing through”
  2. Isaiah 28:19 Literally “in the morning in the morning”
  3. Isaiah 28:20 Literally “from stretching oneself”