Isaiah 28:19

"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."

Key Reflection

This verse suggests that the people's false sense of security, thinking they have made a covenant with death and an agreement with Sheol, will be nullified. When judgment comes, it will overpower them, demonstrating the emptiness of their lies and refuting their false refuge.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you -It shall not delay, or be hindered, or put back. As soon as the judgment is sent forth from God it shall come upon you. For morning by morning -Continually; without intermission. It shall be like floods and tempests that have no intermission; that are repeated every day, and continued every night, until everything is swept before them. And it shall be a vexation -It shall be an object of alarm, of agitation, of distress -זועהzevâ‛âhfromזועzûa‛, “to move oneself;” to tremble with alarm; to be troubledEcclesiastes 12:3;Daniel 5:19;Daniel 6:27;Hebrews 2:7.

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