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Isaiah 28:17-19
New English Translation
Isaiah 28:17-19
New English Translation
17 I will make justice the measuring line,
fairness the plumb line;
hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge,[a]
the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.
18 Your treaty with death will be dissolved;[b]
your agreement[c] with Sheol will not last.[d]
When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by,[e]
you will be overrun by it.[f]
19 Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you;
indeed,[g] every morning it will sweep by,
it will come through during the day and the night.”[h]
When this announcement is understood,
it will cause nothing but terror.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 28:17 tn Heb “[the] refuge, [the] lie.” See v. 15.
- 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.
- Isaiah 28:18 tn Normally the noun חָזוּת (khazut) means “vision.” See the note at v. 15.
- Isaiah 28:18 tn Or “will not stand” (NIV, NRSV).
- Isaiah 28:18 tn See the note at v. 15.
- Isaiah 28:18 tn Heb “you will become a trampling place for it.”
- Isaiah 28:19 tn Or “for” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV).
- Isaiah 28:19 tn The words “it will come through” are supplied in the translation. The verb “will sweep by” does double duty in the parallel structure.
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