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18 Your agreement with death will be erased;
    your contract with death will not help you.
When terrible punishment comes,
    you will be crushed by it.
19 Whenever punishment comes, it will take you away.
    It will come morning after morning;
    it will defeat you by day and by night.
Those who understand this punishment will be terrified.”
20 You will be like the person who tried to sleep
    on a bed that was too short
and with a blanket that was too narrow
    to wrap around himself.

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18 Your covenant with death will be annulled;
    your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand.(A)
When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by,(B)
    you will be beaten down(C) by it.
19 As often as it comes it will carry you away;(D)
    morning after morning,(E) by day and by night,
    it will sweep through.”

The understanding of this message
    will bring sheer terror.(F)
20 The bed is too short to stretch out on,
    the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.(G)

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