28:3 The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards
will be trampled underfoot.
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
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.”