Yesaya 18:4

18:4 For this is what the Lord has told me:

“I will wait ¹  and watch from my place,

like scorching heat produced by the sunlight, ² 

like a cloud of mist ³  in the heat ⁴  of harvest.” ⁵ 

Yesaya 57:17-18

57:17 I was angry because of their sinful greed;

I attacked them and angrily rejected them, ⁶ 

yet they remained disobedient and stubborn. ⁷ 

57:18 I have seen their behavior, ⁸ 

but I will heal them and give them rest,

and I will once again console those who mourn. ⁹ 

[18:4]  ¹ tn Or “be quiet, inactive”; NIV “will remain quiet.”

[18:4]  ² tn Heb “like the glowing heat because of light.” The precise meaning of the line is uncertain.

[18:4]  ³ tn Heb “a cloud of dew,” or “a cloud of light rain.”

[18:4]  ⁴ tc Some medieval Hebrew mss, with support from the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Latin Vulgate, read “the day.”

[18:4]  ⁵ sn It is unclear how the comparisons in v. 4b relate to the preceding statement. How is waiting and watching similar to heat or a cloud? For a discussion of interpretive options, see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:362.

[57:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “and I struck him, hiding, and I was angry.” פָּנַיִם (panayim, “face”) is the implied object of “hiding.”

[57:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he walked [as an] apostate in the way of his heart.”

[57:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “his ways” (so KJV, NASB, NIV); TEV “how they acted.”

[57:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “and I will restore consolation to him, to his mourners.”