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Isaiah 18:4
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2 Which sends ambassadors by sea,
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.”
3 All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth:
aWhen he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;
And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it. 
4 For so the Lord said to me,
“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.” 
5 For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect
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.
6 They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey
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.
7 In that time aa present will be brought to the Lord of hosts
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. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 18:4

take . . . rest . . . consider—I will calmly look on and not interpose, while all seems to promise success to the enemy; when figuratively, "the sun's heat" and "the night dews" ripen their "harvest"; but "before" it reaches its maturity I will destroy it (Isaiah 18:5; Ecclesiastes 8:11-12).

like a clear heat—rather, "at the time of the clear (serene) heat" [MAURER].

upon herbs—answering to "harvest" in the parallel clause. MAURER translates, "in the sunlight" (Job 31:26; Job 37:21; Habakkuk 3:4).

like . . . dew—rather, "at the time of the dew cloud." God's "silence" is mistaken by the ungodly for consent; His delay in taking vengeance for forgetfulness (Psalms 50:21); so it shall be before the vengeance which in the last day shall usher in the restoration of the Jews (Isaiah 34:1-8; Isaiah 57:11, end of the verse, II Peter 3:3-10).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 18:4:

Isaiah 17:14
Isaiah 18:1
Isaiah 18:2
Isaiah 18:6
Isaiah 19:25
Isaiah 23:18

 

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