17 Judgment also will I lay to the rule, and [a]righteousness to the balance, and the [b]hail shall sweep away the vain confidence, and the waters shall overflow [c]the secret place.

18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand: when a scourge shall run over and pass through, then shall ye be trodden down by it.

19 When it passeth over, it shall take you away: for it shall pass through every morning in the day and in the night, and there shall be only [d]fear, to make you to understand the hearing.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:17 In the restitution of his Church, judgment and justice shall reign.
  2. Isaiah 28:17 God’s corrections and afflictions.
  3. Isaiah 28:17 Affliction shall discover their vain confidence, which they kept secret to themselves.
  4. Isaiah 28:19 Terror and destruction shall make you to learn that, which exhortations and gentleness could not bring you unto.

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