Discovery BoxIsaiah 28:17-18 
Context28:17 I will make justice the measuring line,
fairness the plumb line;
hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, 1
the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.
28:18 Your treaty with death will be dissolved; 2
your agreement 3 with Sheol will not last. 4
When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, 5
you will be overrun by it. 6
1 tn Heb “[the] refuge, [the] lie.” See v. 15.
2 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.
3 tn Normally the noun חָזוּת (khazut) means “vision.” See the note at v. 15.
4 tn Or “will not stand” (NIV, NRSV).
6 tn Heb “you will become a trampling place for it.”
