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Isaiah 28:17 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 28 · verse 17
Judgment 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.Isaiah 28:17 · King James Version
Isaiah 28:17 in context
15Because 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:
16Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
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 disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnesstsᵉdâqâhrightness , subjectively , objectively , morally or figurativelyH6666 →
- Judgmentmishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- plummetmishqeletha weightH4949 →
- refugemachăçeha shelterH4268 →
- watersmayimwaterH4325 →
- lineqava cord , especially formeasuringH6957 →
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The prophet, having reproved those that made a jest of the word of God, here goes on to reprove those that made a jest of the judgments of God, and set them at defiance; for he is a jealous God, and will not suffer either his ordinances or his providences to be brought into contempt.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-22