Isaiah 28:18-19

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.

[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.

[28:18]  ² tn Normally the noun חָזוּת (khazut) means “vision.” See the note at v. 15.

[28:18]  ³ tn Or “will not stand” (NIV, NRSV).

[28:18]  ⁴ tn See the note at v. 15.

[28:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “you will become a trampling place for it.”

[28:19]  ⁶ tn Or “for” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV).

[28:19]  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.