18 Your (A)covenant with death will be [a](B)canceled,
And your pact with Sheol will not stand;
When the (C)[b]gushing flood passes through,
Then you will become its (D)trampling ground.
19 As (E)often as it passes through, it will [c]seize you;
For (F)morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,
And it will be [d]sheer (G)terror to understand [e]what it means.”
20 The bed is too short on which to stretch out,
And the (H)blanket is too [f]small to wrap oneself in.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:18 Lit covered over
  2. Isaiah 28:18 Or overwhelming scourge
  3. Isaiah 28:19 Lit take
  4. Isaiah 28:19 Lit only
  5. Isaiah 28:19 Lit the report; or the message
  6. Isaiah 28:20 Lit narrow

Bible Gateway Recommends