Kejadian 27:28

27:28 May God give you

the dew of the sky ¹ 

and the richness ²  of the earth,

and plenty of grain and new wine.

Yesaya 18:4

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

“I will wait ³  and watch from my place,

like scorching heat produced by the sunlight, ⁴ 

like a cloud of mist ⁵  in the heat ⁶  of harvest.” ⁷ 

[27:28]  ¹ tn Heb “and from the dew of the sky.”

[27:28]  ² tn Heb “and from the fatness.”

[18:4]  ³ tn Or “be quiet, inactive”; NIV “will remain quiet.”

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

[18:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “a cloud of dew,” or “a cloud of light rain.”

[18:4]  ⁶ tc Some medieval Hebrew mss, with support from the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Latin Vulgate, read “the day.”

[18:4]  ⁷ 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.