Isaiah 28:18-19

[18] 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. [19] From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

What is the context of Isaiah 28:18-19?

What does Isaiah 28:18-19 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Their signed agreements would prove meaningless. Their boast of immunity from catastrophe would prove hollow. They mocked a message leading to rest and chose to embrace a message resulting in terror. The scourge God would send would be like a marauding beast as well as a hailstorm and a flood.

"The Assyrian annals report numerous returns to the same areas, each return being accompanied by vast slaughter and pillage. The steady hammer blows of such an attack spread out over years, whether calculatedly Song of Solomon , or as a result of political exigencies elsewhere, could be expected to reduce a people to shivering terror, as the prophet noted here." ^[1]