Isaiah 28:18 “Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sh…”

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

American Standard Version

And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

Geneva Bible 1599

And your couenant with death shalbe disanulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand: when a scourge shall runne ouer and passe through, then shall ye be trode downe by it.

Darby Translation

And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, ye shall be trodden down by it.

Young's Literal Translation

And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.

Bible in Basic English

And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.

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Cross references

“your covenant”

Isaiah 7:7 Isaiah 8:10 Jeremiah 44:28 Ezekiel 17:15 Zechariah 1:6

Isaiah 7:7 · BSB

But this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘It will not arise; it will not happen.

Isaiah 8:10 · BSB

Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us. ”

Jeremiah 44:28 · BSB

Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!

Ezekiel 17:15 · BSB

But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’

Zechariah 1:6 · BSB

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has…

“when”

Daniel 11:40 Isaiah 2:15 Isaiah 8:8 Jeremiah 47:2 Daniel 8:9–13 Revelation 12:15

Daniel 11:40 · BSB

At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships, invading many countries and sweeping through them lik…

Isaiah 2:15 · BSB

against every high tower, against every fortified wall,

Isaiah 8:8 · BSB

It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!

Jeremiah 47:2 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and…

Daniel 8:9–13 · BSB

From one of these horns a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the Beautiful Land.

Revelation 12:15 · BSB

Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.

“trodden down by it”

Isaiah 28:3 Malachi 4:1–3

Isaiah 28:3 · BSB

The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

Malachi 4:1–3 · BSB

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left…

Also

Isaiah 28:15

Isaiah 28:15 · BSB

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hidi…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

19As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.

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