Isaiah 18:4
For, thus, said Yahweh unto me,—I must be quiet I must look on in my fixed place of abode,—Like a bright heat on the light, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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2 Chronicles 6:21wilt thou therefore hearken unto the supplications of thy servant, and thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place,—yea wilt, thou thyself, hear, out of thine own dwelling-place, out of the heavens, and, when thou hearest, then wilt thou forgive?
Psalms 132:13For Yahweh hath chosen Zion,—He hath desired it as a dwelling for himself:
Isaiah 14:32What, then, shall one answer the messengers of a nation? That Yahweh, hath founded Zion, And in her, shall seek refuge the oppressed of his people.
Isaiah 26:19Thy dead, shall come to life again, My dead body, they shall arise,—Awake and shout for joy, ye that dwell in the dust For, a dew of light, is thy dew, And, earth, to the shades shall give birth.
Isaiah 31:9And his own Cliff, through terror, shall he pass by, And his princes shall be dismayed at an ensign,—Declareth Yahweh. Who hath a flame in Zion, And hath a furnace in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 57:15For, thus, saith he that is high and lifted up—Inhabiting futurity, And, holy, is his name: A high and holy place, will I inhabit, Also with the crushed and lowly in spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, and To revive the heart of them who are crushed;—
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 →