Isaiah · Catholic Public Domain Version
Isaiah 18 Catholic Public Domain Version
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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1 Woe to the land, that winged cymbal, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2 which sends ambassadors by sea and in vessels of papyrus above the waters. Go forth, O swift Angels, to a nation which has been convulsed and torn apart, to a terrible people, after whom there is no other, to a nation apprehensive and downtrodden, whose land the rivers have spoiled.
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 All inhabitants of the world, you who dwell upon the earth: when the sign will have been elevated on the mountains, you will see, and you will hear the blast of the 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 the Lord says this to me: I will be quiet, and I will consider in my place, as the light at midday is clear, and as a cloud of dew in the day of the 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 For before the harvest, all was flourishing. And it will spring forth with an untimely completion, and its little branches will be pruned with a curved blade. And what is left over will be cut away and shaken 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 together they will be abandoned to the birds of the mountains and to the wild beasts of the earth. And the birds will be continuously on them in the summer, and all the wild beasts of the earth will winter over them.
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, a gift will be carried to the Lord of hosts, from a people divided and torn apart, from a terrible people, after whom there has been no other, from an apprehensive nation, apprehensive and downtrodden, whose land the rivers have ruined, and it will be carried to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, to 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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