6 Or “be quiet, inactive”; “will remain quiet.”
7 Heb “like the glowing heat because of light.” The precise meaning of the line is uncertain.
8 Heb “a cloud of dew,” or “a cloud of light rain.”
9 Some medieval Hebrew , with support from the , , and Latin , read “the day.”
10 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 (), 1:.

In other versions

For thus the Lord said to me:

“I will quietly look from my dwelling

like clear heat in sunshine,

like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

This is what the Lord says to me:

“I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,

like shimmering heat in the sunshine,

like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

For the Lord said to me:

I will quietly look out from my place,

like shimmering heat in sunshine,

like a rain cloud in harvest heat.

For the Lord has told me this:

“I will watch quietly from my dwelling place—

as quietly as the heat rises on a summer day,

or as the morning dew forms during the harvest.”

For Yahweh said this to me:

“I will be quiet,

and I will look from my dwelling place

like clear heat because of light,

like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

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.

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