Isaiah 18:4
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Berean Study Bible
For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Young's Literal Translation
For thus said Jehovah unto me, ‘I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

King James Bible
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.

Hebrew
For
כִּי֩ (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

this is what
כֹ֨ה (ḵōh)
Adverb
Strong's 3541: Like this, thus, here, now

the LORD
יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

has told
אָמַ֤ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

me:
אֵלַ֔י (’ê·lay)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

“I will quietly
אֶשְׁקֳטָ֖ה (’eš·qo·ṭāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 8252: To be quiet or undisturbed

look on
וְאַבִּ֣יטָה (wə·’ab·bî·ṭāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 5027: To scan, look intently at, to regard

from My dwelling place,
בִמְכוֹנִ֑י (ḇim·ḵō·w·nî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4349: A fixture, a basis, a place, as an abode

like shimmering
צַח֙ (ṣaḥ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6703: Dazzling, sunny, bright, evident

heat
כְּחֹ֥ם (kə·ḥōm)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2527: Heat

in
עֲלֵי־ (‘ă·lê-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the sunshine,
א֔וֹר (’ō·wr)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 219: Luminousness, prosperity, a plant

like a cloud
כְּעָ֥ב (kə·‘āḇ)
Preposition-k | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 5645: An envelope, darkness, a, cloud, a copse

of dew
טַ֖ל (ṭal)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2919: Night mist, dew

in the heat
בְּחֹ֥ם (bə·ḥōm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2527: Heat

of harvest.”
קָצִֽיר׃ (qā·ṣîr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7105: Severed, harvest, the crop, the time, the reaper, a limb

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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