Isaiah 28:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Judgment

Revelation 19:2

And the hail

And the waters

2 Peter 3:6

General references

Psalm 83:15

Proverbs 16:25

Bible References

Judgment

Your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea. Yet only a remnant within them will return. Overwhelming and righteous destruction has been decreed.

The line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab will be stretched over Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face.

For judgment will again be righteous. The upright in heart will follow it.

He showed me: and, behold, Jehovah stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

We are sure that the judgment of God, according to truth, is against those who commit such things.

He is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting it short in righteousness. Jehovah will make an accounting on the earth. (Isaiah 10:22)

True and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great harlot, who corrupted the earth with her fornication. And has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

And the hail

Behold, Jehovah has a strong and mighty one (Assyria). He will cast down to the earth with military power. It will be like a destructive thunderstorm with hail and a mighty flood of water.

You have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat. When the blast of the ruthless was like a winter rainstorm,

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a place to hide from storms. They will be like streams flowing in a desert, like the shadow of a giant rock in a barren land.

At this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

As they fled from Israel, and were going down to Beth-horon, Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them all the way to Azekah and they died. In fact hailstones killed more than the children of Israel killed using their swords.

Do not trust in deceptive words. They say: 'This is the Temple of Jehovah, the Temple of Jehovah, and the Temple of Jehovah.

The storm of Jehovah vents his wrath. A whirling tempest will swirl down on the head of the wicked.

The storm of Jehovah will come with his anger. Like a driving wind, it will swirl down on the heads of the wicked.

It is definitely because they have misled my people by saying, Peace! When there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall they plaster it over with whitewash.'

With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment on him. I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone.

The first angel blew his trumpet. Hail and fire mixed with blood came down upon the earth. A third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

The temple of God was opened in heaven. There was seen in his temple the ark of his covenant. And there were lightnings and voices and thunder and an earthquake and great hail.

There fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent (45 to 100 pounds). Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for the plague was exceeding great.

And the waters

His breath is like an overflowing stream. It raises neck high and sifts the nations with a sieve of destruction. It places a bit in the mouths of the people to lead them astray.

They were snatched away before their time. Their foundation is washed away by flood.

The overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him, and will be broken after the prince of the covenant is destroyed.

The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and battered the house and it fell with a great crash.

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

General references

pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end is the way of death!