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Isaiah 18:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

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It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

And give ear to the prayers of your servant and of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear from heaven your living-place; and hearing have mercy.

May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.

In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.

Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.

And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.

My righteousness is near, it is not far off; salvation will come quickly; and I will make Zion free, and give Israel my glory.

For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, living in Zion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem will be holy, and no strange person will ever again go through her.

Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.




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