Text -- Isaiah 28:18 (NET)

28:18 Your treaty with death will be dissolved; your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, you will be overrun by it.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 28:18

¹ tn On the meaning of כָּפַר (kafar) in this context, see HALOT 494 s.v. I כפר and J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:515, n. 9.

² tn Normally the noun חָזוּת (khazut) means “vision.” See the note at v. 15.

³ tn Or “will not stand” (NIV, NRSV).

⁴ tn See the note at v. 15.

⁵ tn Heb “you will become a trampling place for it.”