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Isaiah 18
New International Version

### A Prophecy Against Cush

18 Woe(A) to the land of whirring wings[a]
along the rivers of Cush,[b](B)
2 which sends envoys(C) by sea
in papyrus(D) boats over the water.

Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,(E)
to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive(F) nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers.(G)

3 All you people of the world,(H)
you who live on the earth,
when a banner(I) is raised on the mountains,
you will see it,
and when a trumpet(J) sounds,
you will hear it.
4 This is what the Lord says to me:
“I will remain quiet(K) and will look on from my dwelling place,(L)
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,(M)
like a cloud of dew(N) in the heat of harvest.”
5 For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off(O) the shoots with pruning knives,
and cut down and take away the spreading branches.(P)
6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey(Q)
and to the wild animals;(R)
the birds will feed on them all summer,
the wild animals all winter.

7 At that time gifts(S) will be brought to the Lord Almighty

from a people tall and smooth-skinned,(T)
from a people feared(U) far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers(V)—

the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.(W)

#### Footnotes

1. Isaiah 18:1 Or of locusts
2. Isaiah 18:1 That is, the upper Nile region

#### Cross references

1. Isaiah 18:1 : Isa 5:8
2. Isaiah 18:1 : S Ge 10:6; S Ps 68:31; S Eze 29:10
3. Isaiah 18:2 : Ob 1:1
4. Isaiah 18:2 : Ex 2:3; Job 9:26
5. Isaiah 18:2 : S Ge 41:14
6. Isaiah 18:2 : S Ge 10:8-9; S 2Ch 12:3
7. Isaiah 18:2 : ver 7
8. Isaiah 18:3 : S Ps 33:8
9. Isaiah 18:3 : S Ps 60:4; Isa 5:26; 11:10; 13:2; 31:9; Jer 4:21
10. Isaiah 18:3 : S Jos 6:20; S Jdg 3:27
11. Isaiah 18:4 : Isa 62:1; 64:12
12. Isaiah 18:4 : Isa 26:21; Hos 5:15; Mic 1:3
13. Isaiah 18:4 : S Jdg 5:31; S Ps 18:12; Hab 3:4
14. Isaiah 18:4 : 2Sa 1:21; S Ps 133:3; Isa 26:19; Hos 14:5
15. Isaiah 18:5 : S Isa 10:33
16. Isaiah 18:5 : Isa 17:10-11; Eze 17:6
17. Isaiah 18:6 : S Isa 8:8
18. Isaiah 18:6 : Isa 37:36; 56:9; Jer 7:33; Eze 32:4; 39:17
19. Isaiah 18:7 : S 2Ch 9:24; S Isa 60:7
20. Isaiah 18:7 : S Ge 41:14
21. Isaiah 18:7 : Hab 1:7
22. Isaiah 18:7 : ver 2
23. Isaiah 18:7 : Ps 68:31

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