¹⁸ Your covenant with death will be annulled,
And your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
Then you will be trampled down by it.

¹⁵ Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we are in agreement.
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
It will not come to us,
^(A)For we have made lies our refuge,
And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

³ The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim,
Will be trampled underfoot;

^10 (A)Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
Speak the word, ^(B)but it will not stand,
^(C)For ^[a]God is with us.”

4 “For behold, ^(A)the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all ^(B)the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be ^(C)stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“That will ^(D)leave them neither root nor branch.
² But to you who ^(E)fear My name
The ^(F)Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out
And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
^3 (G)You shall trample the wicked,
For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet
On the day that I do this,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

⁶ Yet surely ^(A)My words and My statutes,
Which I commanded My servants the prophets,
Did they not overtake your fathers?