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

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:18 Lit covered over
  2. Isaiah 28:19 Lit take
  3. Isaiah 28:19 Lit only
  4. Isaiah 28:19 Lit the report, or, the message
  5. Isaiah 28:20 Lit narrow