Isaiah 18:4-6
International Standard Version
4 For this is what the Lord told me:
“I will remain quiet and watch in my dwelling place
like dazzling heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat[a] of harvest.”
5 For before the harvest, when the season of[b] budding is over,
and sour grapes ripen into mature grapes,[c]
he cuts off the shoots with pruning knives,
clearing away the spreading branches
as he lops them off.
6 And[d] they will all be left
for birds of prey that live on the mountains[e]
and for wild animals.[f]
Birds of prey will pass the summer feeding on them,
and all the wild animals[g] will pass the winter feeding[h] on them.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 18:4 So 1QIsaa MT; MTmss LXX read on the day
- Isaiah 18:5 1QIsaa MT lack season of
- Isaiah 18:5 Lit. flowers
- Isaiah 18:6 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsab lacks And
- Isaiah 18:6 So 4QIsab; 1QIsaa MT read of mountains; LXX reads mountains of heaven
- Isaiah 18:6 Lit. for beasts of the earth; i.e. non-domesticated animals, as opposed to domesticated livestock;
- Isaiah 18:6 Lit. the beasts of the earth; so 1QIsaa; i.e. non-domesticated animals, as opposed to domesticated livestock; MT LXX read every beast of the field
- Isaiah 18:6 1QIsaa MT lack feeding
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