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Isaiah 28:18-27
King James Version
Isaiah 28:18-27
King James Version
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
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Isaiah 28:18-27
New International Version
Isaiah 28:18-27
New International Version
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)
21 The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim,(H)
he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon(I)—
to do his work,(J) his strange work,
and perform his task, his alien task.
22 Now stop your mocking,(K)
or your chains will become heavier;
the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me
of the destruction decreed(L) against the whole land.(M)
23 Listen(N) and hear my voice;
pay attention and hear what I say.
24 When a farmer plows for planting,(O) does he plow continually?
Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?
25 When he has leveled the surface,
does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin?(P)
Does he not plant wheat in its place,[a]
barley(Q) in its plot,[b]
and spelt(R) in its field?
26 His God instructs him
and teaches(S) him the right way.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Isaiah 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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