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. 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.
The Lord takes His rest and quietly watches and considers from His dwelling place, like the clear heat of sunshine upon plants and like a cooling cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. The heat and the dew portray a judgment that withers and destroys, showing that His anger against oppressors is slow but sure and that their power cannot withstand it. Joined to the preceding call for all inhabitants of the earth to hear, the verse concerns a literal trumpet, not a symbolic one, sounded when the Son of God descends from heaven, signaling the gathering of the righteous, the resurrection of the righteous dead, and their change to immortality.
The prophecy to which the verse belongs is applied to the United States, or more broadly to the Anglo-Saxon peoples, and to a final gospel message originating there. It is also identified as concerning southern Africa, though the chapter is understood by some to refer to the New World. Its quiet watching occurs before the harvest, when the message goes ahead of the time when the wicked are cut away, the plagues come for a year, and God's children are gathered home. Those who accept that message are like refreshing dew amid the spiritual barrenness of the last days.