...little and there a little,that they might go and fall backward, and be broken and spared. Wherefore, hear the word of the Lord, ye Scornful Men that rule this people! Because ye havfe said, We have made a cftvenant with Death, and with Hell are we at agreement! Your...

...little ; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 IT Wherefore s 1 5 Because ye have said. We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement ; when...

...openly defy the terrors of the Almighty, proclaiming by their actions, the belief of their hearts to be, "when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us." But hear the answer of the Lord, ye who thus provoke him to anger: "when the overflowing scourge shall...

...see the day? But the overflowing scourge comes too near them. They thought themselves secure ; they said, " We have made a covenant with death, and with...shall pass through, it shall not come unto us : for we nave made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves." But God answers them as follows;...

...agreement with hell, or the grave," not to hurt them. Therefore the prophet represents them as saying, " We have made a covenant with death, and with hell...overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies (that is what the prophet calls lies,) our refuge ;" and under what he...

...meet temperaments, worldly hearts run wild and say, with the scornful men that ruled in Jerusalem, " We have made a covenant with death, and with hell...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," Is. xxviii. 15....

...ever, rather than have come down to parliament with such an article in a treaty of peace, saying, " We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement ;" (Isaiah, xxviii. 15.) — yet what did they less, when they signed the warrant for France to commit...

...In that day shall the Lord of hosts, &c. for <, spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment. Hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people, &c. because ye have said, &c. — Isa. xxviii. 5, 6. 14, 15. 18. He that despiseth the gain of oppressions,...

...In that day shall the Lord of hosts, &c. for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment. Hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people, &c. because ye have said, &c. — Jsa. xxviii. 5, 6. 14, 15. 18. He that despiseth the gain of oppressions,...

...describes them as making a covenant with death ; and when he had been talking of judgments, they say, ' If the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us.' These are the thoughts of foolish and ungodly men. They have made lies their refuge, and under falsehood...