Isaiah 18 JPS Tanakh (1917)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (1)
- Numbers like (22-2) in the text give the Hebrew verse numbering where it differs.
Isaiah is not in PT1904.
1 Ah, land of the buzzing of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
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2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
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3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the horn is blown, hear ye.
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4 For thus hath the LORD said unto me: I will hold Me still, and I will look on in My dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
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5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off.
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6 They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
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7 In that time shall a present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people tall and of glossy skin, and from a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
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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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