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18 Your treaty with death will be dissolved;[a]
your agreement[b] with Sheol will not last.[c]
When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by,[d]
you will be overrun by it.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:18 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. Isaiah 28:18 tn Normally the noun חָזוּת (khazut) means “vision.” See the note at v. 15.
  3. Isaiah 28:18 tn Or “will not stand” (NIV, NRSV).
  4. Isaiah 28:18 tn See the note at v. 15.
  5. Isaiah 28:18 tn Heb “you will become a trampling place for it.”