⁵ Yet you sweep people away^(A) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:

⁷ therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
    the mighty floodwaters^(A) of the Euphrates—
    the king of Assyria^(B) with all his pomp.^(C)
It will overflow all its channels,
    run over all its banks^(D)

⁸ and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,^(A)
    passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings^(B) will cover the breadth of your land,
    Immanuel^[a]!”^(C)

¹⁸ Your covenant with death will be annulled;
    your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand.^(A)
When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by,^(B)
    you will be beaten down^(C) by it.