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
30:12 For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says:
“You have rejected this message; 9
you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, 10
and rely on that kind of behavior. 11
30:13 So this sin will become your downfall.
You will be like a high wall
that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse;
it crumbles suddenly, in a flash. 12
30:14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar,
so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. 13
Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough 14
to scoop a hot coal from a fire 15
or to skim off water from a cistern.” 16
8:14 whose 17 trust 18 is in something futile, 19
whose security is a spider’s web. 20
8:15 He leans against his house but it does not hold up, 21
he takes hold 22 of it but it does not stand.