Isaiah · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Isaiah 18 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 Woe to you, ye wings of the land of ships, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.
1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2 He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.
2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”
3 Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country; their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet.
3 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!
4 For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.
4 For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;
5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
6 and he shall leave [them] together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.
6 They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.
7 In that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people afflicted and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and forever; a nation hoping and [yet] trodden down, which is in a part of a river of his land, to the place where is the name of the Lord of hosts, the Mount Zion.
7 In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.
Cross references (7)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Zephaniah 3:10; 2 Kings 19:9; Ezekiel 30:4–5; Zephaniah 2:12; Psalm 63:7
- 2 Isaiah 18:7; Genesis 10:8–9; 2 Chronicles 16:8; 2 Chronicles 12:2–4; 2 Chronicles 14:9
- 3 Isaiah 5:26; Matthew 13:16; Isaiah 26:11; Micah 6:9; Matthew 13:9
- 4 Hosea 5:15; Isaiah 26:21; Isaiah 18:7; Isaiah 12:6; Psalm 132:13–14
- 5 Isaiah 17:10–11; Song of Songs 2:15; Song of Songs 2:13; Ezekiel 17:6–10
- 6 Jeremiah 7:33; Ezekiel 32:4–6; Ezekiel 39:17–20; Isaiah 14:19; Jeremiah 15:3
- 7 Zephaniah 3:10; Acts 8:27–28; Zechariah 14:16–17; Isaiah 18:4; Isaiah 45:14
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