Rotherham(i)
14 Wherefore, hear ye the word of Yahweh, Ye men who scoff,––Ye rulers of this people that is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said––We have solemnised a covenant with death, And, with hades, have we effected a vision,––The overflowing scourge, when it sweepeth by, shall not reach unto us, For we have made lying, our refuge, And, in falsehood, have we hid ourselves.
16 Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Behold me! founding in Zion, a stone, A stone of testing, The costly corner of a well–laid foundation, He that trusteth, shall not make haste!
17 But I will make–Justice, the line, and, Righteousness, the plummet,––And the hail shall, sweep away, your refuge of lying, And, your hiding–place, the waters shall overflow;
18 So shall be wiped out your covenant with death, And, your vision with hades, not stand,––When, the overflowing scourge, sweepeth past, then shall ye be thereby beaten down:
19 As often as it sweepeth past, it shall take you, away, For, morning by morning, shall it pass along, By day and by night,––And it shall be nothing less than a terror, to make out the message;
20 For too short, is the couch to stretch oneself out,––And, the coverlet, too narrow, when one draweth up his feet.
21 For, as in Mount Perazim, will Yahweh arise, As in the vale of Gibeon, will he be stirred,––To do his work–foreign, is his work, And to perform his task–strange, is his task.
22 Now, therefore, do not show yourselves scoffers, Lest your fetters, be bound fast,––For, of a full end, and that a decreed one, have I heard from My Lord Yahweh of hosts, upon all the land.