Isaiah 18
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Proclamation Against Ethiopia
1Woe #2 Kin. 19:9; Is. 20:4, 5; Ezek. 30:4, 5, 9; Zeph. 2:12; 3:10to the land shadowed with buzzing wings,
Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2Which sends ambassadors by sea,
Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,
To a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide.”
3All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth:
#Is. 5:26When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;
And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.
4For so the Lord said to me,
“I will take My rest,
And I will look from My dwelling place
Like clear heat in sunshine,
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect
And the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks
And take away and cut down the branches.
6They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey
And for the beasts of the earth;
The birds of prey will summer on them,
And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.
7In that time #Ps. 68:31; 72:10; Is. 16:1; Zeph. 3:10; Mal. 1:11; Acts 8:27–38a present will be brought to the Lord of hosts
From a people tall and smooth of skin,
And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts,
To Mount Zion.
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Isaiah 18
18
Oracle of Judgment on Cush
1Ah! land of the whirring of wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Cush,
2that sends messengers by the sea
and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters!
Go, swift messengers, to a tall#Literally “stretched out” and smooth#Literally “peeled,” “wiped clean,” or “hairless” nation,
to a people feared near and far,#Literally “from this and beyond”
a mighty, mighty#Perhaps this is a gibberish phrase in Hebrew, qaw-qaw and trampling#Meaning uncertain nation,
whose land rivers divide.
3All you inhabitants of the world
and dwellers of the earth,
when a signal is raised on the#Literally “as a raising of a signal” mountains, you must look,
and when a trumpet is blown,#Literally “as a blowing of a trumpet” you must listen!
4For Yahweh said this to me:
“I will be quiet,
and I will look from my dwelling place
like clear heat because of light,#The meaning of this phrase is uncertain; perhaps the “light” is sunlight
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5For before the harvest, when the blossom is complete#Literally “as a completion of a blossom”
and a blossom becomes ripening fruit,
and one cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks,
and one removes, tears away the tendrils.
6They shall all be left#Literally “be left together” for birds#Hebrew “bird” of prey of the mountains
and for the animals#Hebrew “animal” of the earth.
And the birds#Hebrew “bird” of prey will pass the summer on it,
and every animal of the earth will winter on it.
7At that time, a gift#Perhaps tribute is meant will be brought to Yahweh of hosts
from a tall#Literally “stretched out” and smooth#Literally “peeled,” “wiped clean,” or “hairless” people,
and from a people feared near and far,
a mighty, mighty and trampling nation,
whose land the rivers divide,
to the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts,
the mountain of Zion.
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