Isaiah 18:6

They will be left together for the birds of the mountains and for the animals of the earth. 1 The birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.” 1

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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

5Before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower is ripening into a grape, 1 he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches. 1

7At that time tribute will be brought to Yahweh of hosts from a people tall and smooth, 1 from a people feared far and near, a nation strong and trampling down, whose land the rivers divide, 1 to the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, to Mount Zion.

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Cross References

Isaiah 14:19But you are cast out of your grave like a branch thrown away. 1 The dead cover you like a garment, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit. 1

Isaiah 56:9All you wild beasts of the field, come and devour, all you beasts in the forest! 1

Jeremiah 15:3For I will assign them to four groups—this is Yahweh's declaration—the sword to slaughter some, the dogs to drag some away, the birds of the skies and the beast of the earth to consume and destroy some.

Ezekiel 32:4I will abandon you in the land. I will throw you into a field 1 and cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you; the hunger of all living animals on earth will be satisfied by you. 1

Revelation 19:17I saw an angel standing in the sun. He called out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great feast of God.

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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