And your covenant with death shall be abolished, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
And now consider; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of those who seek their lives: and their carcasses will I give to be food for the birds of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah that have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
Thus says the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those who dwell in it: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
Say to those who daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing rain shower; and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, As the LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.