19 When it passeth over, it shall take you away: for it shall pass through every morning in the day and in the night, and there shall be only [a]fear, to make you to understand the hearing.

20 For the bed is [b]strait, that it cannot suffice, and the covering narrow, that one cannot wrap himself.

21 For the Lord shall stand as in mount [c]Perazim: he shall be wroth as in the valley [d]of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:19 Terror and destruction shall make you to learn that, which exhortations and gentleness could not bring you unto.
  2. Isaiah 28:20 Your affliction shall be so sore, that you are not able to endure it.
  3. Isaiah 28:21 When David overcame the Philistines, 2 Sam. 5:20; 1 Chron. 14:11.
  4. Isaiah 28:21 Where Joshua discomfited five kings of the Amorites, Josh. 10:12.

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