Isaiah 28:15 meaning and explanation
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.”
Isaiah 28:15, Berean Standard Bible
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Isaiah has just turned from Ephraim's drunkards to the scoffers who rule Jerusalem, and here he quotes their own boast back at them. They have struck a bargain with death and Sheol, the grave, as though they could negotiate with the powers that threaten them.
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