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13 The word of the Lord will come to them:
‘Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there,’
so they go stumbling backwards,
to be broken, trapped, and captured.(A)

A Deal with Death

14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord,(B) you scoffers(C)
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15 For you said, ‘We have made a covenant with Death,
and we have an agreement with Sheol;
when the overwhelming catastrophe[a] passes through,(D)
it will not touch us,
because we have made falsehood our refuge
and have hidden behind treachery.’

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Footnotes

  1. 28:15 Or whip; Hb obscure, also in v. 18