Isaiah 28:14-22
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14Therefore, ahear the word of Yahweh, O bscoffers,Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,15Because you have said, “We have cut a acovenant with death,And with Sheol we have made a 1pact.bThe overflowing 2scourge will not reach us when it passes by,For we have made cfalsehood our refuge and we have dhidden ourselves with lying.”16Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “aBehold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested bstone,A costly cornerstone for the foundation, 1firmly placed.He who believes in it will not be 2disturbed.
17“I will make ajustice the measuring lineAnd righteousness the level;Then bhail will sweep away the refuge of falsehood,And the waters will overflow the secret place.18“Your acovenant with death will be 1,bcanceled,And your pact with Sheol will not stand;When the coverflowing scourge passes through,Then you will become its dtrampling place.19“As aoften as it passes through, it will take you;For bmorning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,And it will be 1sheer cterror to understand the report.”20The bed is too short on which to stretch out,And the ablanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.21For Yahweh will rise up as at Mount aPerazim;He will be stirred up as in the valley of bGibeon,To work His cwork, His 1,dunusual work,And to labor in His labor, His 2exceptional labor.22So now do not carry on as ascoffers,Lest your fetters be made stronger;For I have heard from Lord Yahweh of hostsOf complete bdestruction, one that is decreed, on all the earth.