Devine Scripture

Isaiah 18:4

Isaiah chapter 18 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Context

v.3All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye.

v.4This passage

v.5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 26:19

    Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

  • Psalms 72:6

    He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.

  • Joel 3:17

    So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

  • Isaiah 18:7

    In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.

  • Hosea 14:5

    I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

  • Isaiah 12:6

    Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.