Isaiah 18:4

For so Hashem said unto me, 1 I will remain quiet in My rest, 1 and I will consider from My dwelling place like shimmering chom (heat) in the ohr, 1 and like a cloud of tal (dew) in the chom katzir (heat of harvest). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

In Context

3All ye inhabitants of the Tevel, 1 and dwellers of Eretz, 1 when a nes (battle flag) is lifted up on the harim, look; 1 and when a shofar is blown, listen! 1

5For before katzir (harvest), when the bud is perfect, 1 and the boser (sour grape, ripening grape) is ripening in the flower, 1 He shall both cut off the zalzallim (shoots) with pruning hooks, 1 and take away and cut down the netishot (tendrils, branches). 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:21Pay heed therefore unto the tachanunei Avdecha (suppplications of Thy servant), and of Thy people Yisroel, which they shall daven toward this place; hear Thou from Thy dwelling place, even from Shomayim; and when Thou hearest, salachta (forgive).

Psalms 132:13For Hashem hath chosen Tziyon; 1 He hath desired her for His moshav. 1

Isaiah 14:32What shall one then answer the malachim (messengers) of the nation? 1 That Hashem hath established Tziyon, 1 and the afflicted of His people shall take refuge in her.

Isaiah 26:19Thy mesim + 26:19 see also Dan 12:2 (dead men) shall live, 1 together with my nevelah (dead bodies, corpses) shall they arise. 1 Awake and sing for joy, ye that dwell in aphar (dust); 1 for Thy tal (dew) is like the orot tal (morning dew), 1 and Eretz shall give birth to repha'im (dead ones). 1

Isaiah 31:9And his rock shall pass away in magor (terror), 1 and his sarim shall desert the nes (battle flag) in panic, 1 saith Hashem, Whose fire is in Tziyon, 1 and His furnace in Yerushalayim.

Isaiah 57:15For thus saith the High and Exalted, 1 Shokhen Ad (the One Who abideth forever, i.e., Who inhabits eternity), Kadosh Shmo: 1 I dwell in marom v'kadosh (the high and holy place), 1 with him also that is of a contrite and lowly ruach, 1 to revive the ruach of the shefalim (humble, lowly ones) 1 and to revive the lev nidka'im (contrite of heart). 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 18:2-7

Judgments Denounced. ( b. c. 712.) 1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when… Read the whole commentary →

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