Covenant with Death

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It says we have made a covenant with death, and an agreement with hell. They have done this because they have made lies their refuge, and try to hide under falsehoods. It says it plainly in Hosea chapter 10:13 that “ ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way…” We Have Made a Covenant with Death

The anti-climax of being sent home after enlistment to await uniforms, much to the annoyance of the landlords who'd already rented out their rooms, the bad food, chaotic conditions, the boredom etc; the classic analysis of war being 95% boredom and 5% terror. Any ex-soldier will recognise it. John Harris's neglected masterpiece of a novel, Covenant With Death, is the success that it is because it follows a group of Sheffield workers from their flag-waving sign-up to the hecatomb on the Somme'

Righteousness is believing in His son. “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.

And while I wasn't invested in the story, I think there are many who would find it a captivating look at a courtroom drama.

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I bought this in a second hand bookshop in Bangkok of all places and it's spent the last thirty years travelling around the world with me. Superficially, it's a straight forward tale of Kitchener's Army (a thinly disguised version of the Sheffield Pals) from formation in 1914 to destruction on the Somme in 1916. Covenant” takes place in a small southwestern town that, in 1922, was “part frontier, part plantation, part pleasure, part cruelty, part old Mexico, part clanking modernity and, as noted, part murder.” It is this murder that is explored by the author, bringing forward details of the act, the arrest, the trial, and subsequent aftermath that befalls the alleged murderer. The narrator is a twenty-nine year old inexperienced judge who is beset with life’s problems, none of which seem particularly earth shattering until he takes charge of the legal proceedings that follow the actual trial. His confidence is shaken. Because 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:" Isaiah 28:15 KJV Copy Print Similar Verses Save The year is 1923 somewhere in the southwest where the oppressive heat is a part of life. A young judge, newly appointed by the state, struggles with this honor and responsibility against his personal life, which is still not completely baked.