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Isaiah 18

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Isaiah 18
An Oracle concerning Cush
1 # Isa 20.3–5; Ezek 30.4, 5, 9; Zeph 2.12; 3.10 Woe, land of buzzing#18.1 Meaning of Heb uncertain wings
beyond the rivers of Cush,
2 # v 7 ; Ex 2.3; 2 Chr 12.2–4sending ambassadors by the Nile
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty#18.2 Meaning of Heb uncertain and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.
3 # Ps 49.1; Isa 5.26; 26.11 All you inhabitants of the world,
you who live on the earth,
when a signal is raised on the mountains, look!
When a trumpet is blown, listen!
4 # 2 Sam 23.4; Isa 26.19, 21 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.”
5 # Isa 27.11; Ezek 17.6–10 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks,
and the spreading branches he will hew away.
6 # Isa 46.11; 56.9; Jer 7.33 They shall all be left
to the birds of prey of the mountains
and to the animals of the earth.
And the birds of prey will summer on them,
and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.
7 # Ps 68.31; Isa 45.14; Zeph 3.10; Zech 14.16, 17 At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of hosts from#18.7 Q ms Gk Vg: MT of a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.

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