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19 As often as the flood sweeps through,
    it will engulf you,
sweeping over you day and night,
    as terror conveys the message clearly.
20 For your bed will be too short
    to enable you to stretch out,
and the blanket will be too narrow
    to cover you sufficiently.
21 Then the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim,
    and he will rage as he did in the Valley of Gibeon,
to accomplish his work, his mysterious work,
    and to perform his deed, his strange deed.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:21 Recalls David’s victory over the Philistines (2 Sam 5:17-25).

19 As often as it comes it will carry you away;(A)
    morning after morning,(B) by day and by night,
    it will sweep through.”

The understanding of this message
    will bring sheer terror.(C)
20 The bed is too short to stretch out on,
    the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.(D)
21 The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim,(E)
    he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon(F)
to do his work,(G) his strange work,
    and perform his task, his alien task.

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