Isaiah 28:18 - Exposition

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled ; or, wiped out . The entire clever arrangement, by which they thought to avert the danger from themselves and from Judaea, shall come to naught. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. As the prophet continues, his metaphor becomes still more mixed. "Treading down" was so familiar an expression for destroying, that, perhaps, its literal sense was overlooked (comp. Isaiah 5:5 ; Isaiah 7:25 ; Isaiah 10:6 ; Daniel 8:13 ; Micah 7:10 ; Zechariah 10:5 , etc.).