<p class="poetry">Your treaty with death will be dissolved;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your agreement<n id="2" /> with Sheol will not last.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">you will be overrun by it.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will surrender their stronghold<n id="1" /> because of fear;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">their officers will be afraid of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s battle flag.&#8221;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the one whose fire is in Zion,p> <p class="poetry">whose firepot is in Jerusalem.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Night and day it will burn;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">its smoke will ascend continually.p> <p class="poetry">Generation after generation it will be a wastelandp> <p class="poetry">and no one will ever pass through it again.p>

<p class="poetry">A thoroughfare will be there &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">it will be called the Way of Holiness.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The unclean will not travel on it;p> <p class="poetry">it is reserved for those authorized to use it<n id="2" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">fools<n id="3" /> will not stray into it.p>

<p class="poetry">When you pass through the waters, I am with you;p> <p class="poetry">when you pass<n id="1" /> through the streams, they will not overwhelm you.p> <p class="poetry">When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned;p> <p class="poetry">the flames will not harm<n id="2" /> you.p>

<p class="poetry">Did you not dry up the sea,p> <p class="poetry">the waters of the great deep?p> <p class="poetry">Did you not make<n id="1" /> a path through the depths of the sea,p> <p class="poetry">so those delivered from bondage<n id="2" /> could cross over?p>

<p class="poetry">For the fields of Heshbon are dried up,p> <p class="poetry">as well as the vines of Sibmah.p> <p class="poetry">The rulers of the nations trample all over its vines,p> <p class="poetry">which reach Jazer and spread to the desert;p> <p class="poetry">their shoots spread out and cross the sea.p>

<p class="poetry">For you say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;We have made a treaty with death,p> <p class="poetry">with Sheol<n id="1" /> we have made an agreement.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">it will not reach us.p> <p class="poetry">For we have made a lie our refuge,p> <p class="poetry">we have hidden ourselves in a deceitful word.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Instead the <sc>Lordsc> will rule there as our mighty king.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Rivers and wide streams will flow through it;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">no war galley will enter;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">no large ships will sail through.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah&#8217;s time,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when I vowed that the waters of Noah&#8217;s flood<n id="2" /> would never again cover the earth.p> <p class="poetry">In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.p>