Isaiah 第18章
An Oracle Concerning Cush
that is beyond the rivers of 18:1 2 Kgs. 19:9Cush,18:1 Probably Nubia
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation 18:2 ver. 7tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation 18:2 [2 Sam. 8:2]mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.
3All you inhabitants of the world,
you who dwell on the earth,
when 18:3 See ch. 5:26a signal is raised on the mountains, look!
When a trumpet is blown, hear!
4For thus the Lord said to me:
“I will quietly look 18:4 Ps. 11:4from my dwelling
like clear heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
518:5 [Ezek. 31:3, 12, 13]For before the harvest, when the blossom is over,
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks,
and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.
to the birds of prey of the mountains
and to the beasts of the earth.
And the birds of prey will summer on them,
and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.
from a people 18:7 ver. 2tall and smooth,
from a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide,
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