Isaiah 28:18

“And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, &c.] Or, “be besmeared”f557, or daubed over, as the ark was with pitch, (<010614>Genesis 6:14) where the same word is used as here; so that it shall not be legible, as any writing that is blotted out by ink, or any other liquor, so that it cannot be read; in like manner this their covenant with death should be so obliterated, that the articles of it could not be made out, and so of no force; thus the Targum renders it, “shall be made void;” (see Gill on “<232815>Isaiah 28:15”): and your agreement with hell shall not stand; or “vision”, or “provision”f558; which they had made by compact, with the greatest care, caution, and foresight, to…”

“disannulled--obliterated, as letters traced on a waxen tablet are obliterated by passing the stylus over it. trodden down--passing from the metaphor in "scourge" to the thing meant, the army which treads down its enemies.”

“your covenant: Isa 7:7, Isa 8:10; Jer 44:28; Eze 17:15; Zac 1:6 shall be disannulled: For kuppar Houbigant, Archbp. Secker, and Bp. Lowth, would read tuppar; but the former may well have the sense ascribed to it here, as it signifies in Chaldee and Syriac, abstersit, diluit, abolevit. when: Isa 2:15, Isa 8:8; Jer 47:2; Dan 8:9-13, Dan 9:26, Dan 9:27, Dan 11:40; Rev 12:15, Rev 17:15 trodden down by it: Heb. a treading down to it, Isa 28:3; Mal 4:1-3 Isaiah 28:19”

“And the whip which Jehovah swings will not be satisfied with one stroke, but will rain strokes. "And your covenant with death is struck out, and your agreement with Hades will not stand; the swelling scourge, when it comes, ye will become a thing trodden down to it. As often as it passes it takes you: for every morning it passes, by day and by night; and it is nothing but shuddering to hear such preaching. For the bed is too short to stretch in, and the covering too tight when a man wraps himself in it." Although berı̄th is feminine, the predicate to it is placed before it in the masculine form (Ges. 144). The covenant is thought of as a document; for khuppar (for obliterari (just as the kal…”