Isaiah 18:6

They shall be left together 1 unto the birds of prey of the harim, 1 and to the behemat ha'aretz; 1 and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, 1 and all the behemat ha'aretz shall winter upon them. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

In Context

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

7In that time shall there be offered 1 in homage to Hashem Tzva'os 1 an Am (people) tall and smooth of skin, 1 an Am Norah far away on the other side; 1 a Goy powerful and treading down under foot, 1 whose land the neharim (rivers) divide, 1 even at the makom (place) of the Shem Hashem Tzva'os, 1 Har Tziyon.

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Cross References

Isaiah 14:19But thou art cast out of thy kever 1 like a rejected netzer + 14:19 see Mt 2:23 (branch); 1 and your raiment is those that are slain, thrust through with a cherev, 1 that go down to the stones of the bor (pit); 1 as a peger (corpse) trodden under feet. 1

Isaiah 56:9All ye animals of the wild, come to devour, 1 yes, all ye animals in the ya'ar (forest). 1

Jeremiah 15:3And I will appoint over them four mishpechot (families, categories ), + 15:3 of covenant reprisal saith Hashem; the cherev to slay, and the kelevim to drag off, and the oph HaShomayim, and the behemat ha'aretz, to devour and destroy.

Ezekiel 32:4Then will I throw thee upon ha'aretz, 1 I will cast thee forth upon the open sadeh, 1 and will cause all the oph HaShomayim to settle upon thee, 1 and I will fill the beasts of kol ha'aretz (the whole earth) with thee. 1

Revelation 19:17And I saw one malach (angel) having taken his stand in the shemesh (sun) and he cried out in a kol gadol (loud voice), saying to all the birds flying in mid-heaven, “Bo! Gather to the Seudah Hagedolah of Hashem; + 19:17 Jer 12:9; 46:10; Ezek 39:17; Isa 34:6

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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