Isaiah 5:5

5:5 Now I will inform you

what I am about to do to my vineyard:

I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, ¹ 

I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there. ² 

Isaiah 28:18

28:18 Your treaty with death will be dissolved; ³ 

your agreement ⁴  with Sheol will not last. ⁵ 

When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, ⁶ 

you will be overrun by it. ⁷ 

[5:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and it will become [a place for] grazing.” בָּעַר (ba’ar, “grazing”) is a homonym of the more often used verb “to burn.”

[5:5]  ² tn Heb “and it will become a trampled place” (NASB “trampled ground”).

[28:18]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Normally the noun חָזוּת (khazut) means “vision.” See the note at v. 15.

[28:18]  ⁵ tn Or “will not stand” (NIV, NRSV).

[28:18]  ⁶ tn See the note at v. 15.

[28:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “you will become a trampling place for it.”