Isaiah 28:15
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 hiding place.”
Note Or false gods
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
Note Sheol is the place of the dead.
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- We have
- To be in covenant with a thing, says Bp. Lowth, is a proverbial expression to denote perfect security from mischief or evil of which it is the cause.
- Isaiah 5:18, 19; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Job 5:23; Job 15:25–27; Jeremiah 44:17; Ezekiel 8:12; Hosea 2:18; Zephaniah 1:12
- when
- Isaiah 8:7, 8; Daniel 11:22
- we have made
- Isaiah 30:10; Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 14:13; Jeremiah 16:19; Jeremiah 28:15–17; Ezekiel 13:16, 22; Amos 2:4; Jonah 2:8; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11