And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
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Gill's Exposition
From the time that it goeth forth, it shall take you,.... Or, "as soon as it passeth through" (z), "it shall take you away"; as soon as it begins to overflow, and as it goes along, it shall make clear…
Barnes' Notes
And your covenant with death - (see the note at Isa 28:15). Shall be disannulled - The word rendered ‘shall be disannulled,’ (וכפר vekupar from כפר kâphar), properly means “to cover, overlay;” then…
The prophet, having reproved those that made a jest of the word of God, here goes on to reprove those that made a jest of the judgments of God, and set them at defiance; for he is a jealous God, and…
Cambridge Bible
See on Isa 28:28. shall be disannulled lit. "smeared over" (cf. Gen 6:14) i.e. "cancelled," "obliterated." The verb is the technical word for expiate (as e.g. Isa 22:14), and although it is nowhere…
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