28:18 Your treaty with death will be dissolved; 1
your agreement 2 with Sheol will not last. 3
When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, 4
you will be overrun by it. 5
28:19 Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you;
indeed, 6 every morning it will sweep by,
it will come through during the day and the night.” 7
When this announcement is understood,
it will cause nothing but terror.
28:20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on,
and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself. 8
28:21 For the Lord will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, 9
he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, 10
to accomplish his work,
his peculiar work,
to perform his task,
his strange task. 11
28:22 So now, do not mock,
or your chains will become heavier!
For I have heard a message about decreed destruction,
from the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, against the entire land. 12