Isaiah 28:2

The reason for the woe of Isaiah 28:1. Render: Behold Jehovah hath a mighty and strong one, like a tempest of hail, a destroying storm; like a flow of mighty overflowing waters, which casts down to the earth with violence.

a mighty and strong one i.e. the Assyrian, Jehovah's instrument (ch. Isaiah 10:5).

a destroying storm Delitzsch renders, less suitably perhaps, "a pestilential wind." The word occurs again only in Deuteronomy 32:24; Psalms 91:6; but a closely related one in Hosea 13:14 (A.V. "destruction"). The image of the storm, here presented in three forms, recurs in Isaiah 28:15; Isaiah 28:18f.

shall cast Better, casts (perf. of experience, Davidson, Synt. § 40, e) The subj. is the storm of waters.

with the hand i.e. with force.