Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,
To a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide.”
aWhen he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;
And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.
“I will take My rest,
And I will1 look from My dwelling place
Like clear heat in sunshine,
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
And the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks
And take away and cut down the branches.
And for the beasts of the earth;
The birds of prey will summer on them,
And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.
1From a people tall and smooth of skin,
And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts,
To Mount Zion.
| << Isaiah 18:3 | Isaiah 18:5 >> |
Isaiah 18:4
For so the Lord said unto me "For thus hath Jehovah said unto me" - The subject of the remaining part of this chapter is, that God would comfort and support his own people, though threatened with immediate destruction by the Assyrians; that Sennacherib' s great designs and mighty efforts against them should be frustrated; and that his vast expectations should be rendered abortive, when he thought them mature, and just ready to be crowned with success; that the chief part of his army should be made a prey for the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, (for this is the meaning of the allegory continued through the fifth and sixth verses); and that Egypt, being delivered from his oppression, and avenged by the hand of God of the wrongs which she had suffered, should return thanks for the wonderful deliverance, both of herself and of the Jews, from this most powerful adversary.
Like a clear heat "Like the clear heat" - The same images are employed by an Arabian poet: -
Solis more fervens , dum frigus ; quumque ardet
Sirius , tum vero frigus ipse et umbra .
Which is illustrated in the note by a like passage from another Arabian poet: -
\ri720 Calor est hyeme , refrigerium aestate .
Excerpta ex Hamasa; published by Schultens, at the end of Erpenius' s Arabic Grammar, p. 425.
Upon herbs "After rain" - " aur here signifies rain, according to what is said Job 36:11 : ' The cloud scatters his rain.' " - Kimchi. In which place of Job the Chaldee paraphrast does indeed explain auro by matereyh ; and so again Job 36:21 and Job 36:30. This meaning of the word seems to make the best sense in this place; it is to be wished that it were better supported.
In the heat of harvest "In the day of harvest" - For bechom , in the heat, fourteen MSS., (several ancient), the Septuagint, Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate read beyom , in the day. The mistake seems to have arisen from kechom in the line above.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 18:4:
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