Isaiah 33:1

The enemy is described by epithets which recur in ch. Isaiah 21:2; Isaiah 24:16. The obscurity of the reference is somewhat unlike Isaiah, who is usually perfectly explicit in his references to the Assyrian.

when thou shalt make an end The Heb. verb used is supposed to mean "attain"; but it occurs nowhere else, and the reading is probably at fault. The substitution of a Kaphfor the Nungives the common verb killâh, "finish," which is the exact sense given by the E.V.