Isaiah 28:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

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 hidden ourselves:

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made an agreement. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, it will not reach us, for we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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:

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For ye coforte yor selues thus: Tush, death & we are at a poynte, & as for hell, we haue made a codicion with it: that though there breake out eny sore plage, it shal not come vpon vs. For with disceate wil we escape, and with nymblenes will we defende or selues.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Because ye haue said, We haue made a couenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement: though a scourge runne ouer, and passe through, it shal not come at vs: for we haue made falshood our refuge, & vnder vanitie are we hid,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Because ye haue sayd, We haue made a couenaunt with death, and with hell are we at agreement: and though there go foorth a sore plague, it shall not come vnto vs, for we haue made falsehood our refuge, and vnder vanitie are we hid.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Because you 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 to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Because ye have said: `We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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:

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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:

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. 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.'"

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For you say,“We have made a treaty with death, with Sheol we have made an agreement. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by it will not reach us. For we have made a lie our refuge, we have hidden ourselves in a deceitful word.”

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 8:7-8 : 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 8 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.
  • Isa 28:2 : 2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, who shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
  • Isa 28:18 : 18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trampled down by it.
  • Ezek 13:22 : 22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, so he should not turn from his wicked way, by promising him life.
  • Dan 11:22 : 22 And with the force of a flood, they shall be swept away from before him, and shall be broken; also the prince of the covenant.
  • Hos 2:18 : 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them lie down safely.
  • Amos 2:4 : 4 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept His commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers walked:
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own mercy.
  • Zeph 1:12 : 12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men who are settled in complacency: that say in their heart, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will He do evil.'
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
  • Job 5:23 : 23 For you shall have a covenant with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
  • Job 15:25-27 : 25 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty. 26 He runs upon Him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his shields. 27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes collops of fat on his flanks.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor does he have power in the day of death; and there is no release from that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
  • Isa 5:18-19 : 18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope: 19 Who say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!
  • Isa 29:15 : 15 Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
  • Isa 30:10 : 10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
  • Isa 30:28 : 28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the middle of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
  • Jer 14:13 : 13 Then I said, 'Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets say to them, 'You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.''
  • Jer 16:19 : 19 O LORD, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to you from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.
  • Jer 28:15-17 : 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie. 16 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will cast you from off the face of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the LORD. 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
  • Jer 44:17 : 17 But we will certainly do whatever thing proceeds out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
  • Ezek 8:12 : 12 Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the earth.
  • Ezek 13:16 : 16 This is concerning the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and see visions of peace for her, when there is no peace, says the Lord GOD.
  • Isa 9:15 : 15 The elder and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 28:16-19
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    16Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he who believes shall not act hastily.

    17Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

    18And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trampled down by it.

    19From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning it shall pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

  • Jer 5:11-12
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    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.

    12They have denied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

  • 14Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem.

  • 17All this has come upon us; yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.

  • 16But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore you shall flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

  • 6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • 15Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

  • Isa 30:10-13
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    10Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

    11Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

    12Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them:

    13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

  • 11The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.

  • 8How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Behold, certainly in vain he made it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

  • 20Come, my people, enter your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

  • Isa 30:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that seek counsel, but not from me; and that make a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

    2Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

  • 19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!

  • 10All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

  • 10Then I said: Ah, Lord GOD! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the soul.

  • 10Because, indeed, they have seduced my people, saying, 'Peace,' when there was no peace; and one builds up a wall, and others daub it with untempered mortar.

  • 14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

  • 13In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • 8Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.

  • 2And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Those for death, to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity.

  • 19O LORD, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to you from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.

  • 13Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

  • 22Destruction and death say, 'We have heard a report of it with our ears.'

  • 14Therefore hell has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices, shall descend into it.

  • 22Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, so he should not turn from his wicked way, by promising him life.

  • 22Now therefore do not be mockers, lest your bonds be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

  • 15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!

  • 10And it shall come to pass, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

  • 28And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken.

  • 11For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

  • 10Arise and depart, for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a severe destruction.

  • 13Your words have been harsh against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'.

  • 47Fear and a snare have come upon us, desolation and destruction.

  • 20You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the seed of evildoers will never be renowned.

  • 18Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand and has done all these things, he shall not escape.

  • 12Let us swallow them alive like the grave, and whole, like those who go down into the pit;

  • 14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

  • 15Because you have said, 'The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.'

  • 3And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • 19Will you profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people who hear your lies?

  • 4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as poison in the furrows of the field.

  • 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, 'How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.'