28:18 Your treaty with death will be dissolved; 1
your agreement 2 with Sheol will not last. 3
When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, 4
you will be overrun by it. 5
28:19 Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you;
indeed, 6 every morning it will sweep by,
it will come through during the day and the night.” 7
When this announcement is understood,
it will cause nothing but terror.
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.”
6 tn Or “for” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV).
7 tn The words “it will come through” are supplied in the translation. The verb “will sweep by” does double duty in the parallel structure.