Yesaya 28:18

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 

Yesaya 35:4

35:4 Tell those who panic, ⁶ 

“Be strong! Do not fear!

Look, your God comes to avenge!

With divine retribution he comes to deliver you.” ⁷ 

Yesaya 36:18

36:18 Hezekiah is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.” Has any of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria? ⁸ 

Yesaya 65:15

65:15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. ⁹ 

The sovereign Lord will kill you,

but he will give his servants another name.

[28:18]  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.

[28:18]  ² tn Normally the noun חָזוּת (khazut) means “vision.” See the note at v. 15.

[28:18]  ³ tn Or “will not stand” (NIV, NRSV).

[28:18]  ⁴ tn See the note at v. 15.

[28:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “you will become a trampling place for it.”

[35:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “Say to the hasty of heart,” i.e., those whose hearts beat quickly from fear.

[35:4]  ⁷ tn The jussive form וְיֹשַׁעֲכֶם (vÿyosha’akhem), which is subordinated to the preceding imperfect with vav conjunctive, indicates purpose.

[36:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “Have the gods of the nations rescued, each his land, from the hand of the king of Assyria?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not!”

[65:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “you will leave your name for an oath to my chosen ones.”

[65:15]  sn For an example of such a curse formula see Jer 29:22.