like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:54"The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Isaiah 25:6On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
Treasury of Scripture
You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
shalt bring
Isaiah 10:8-15,32-34
For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? …
Isaiah 13:11
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isaiah 14:10-16
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? …
as the heat
Isaiah 18:4
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.
Isaiah 49:10
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Psalm 105:39
He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
Branch
Isaiah 14:19
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Job 8:16-19
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden…
