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Isaiah Chapter 18 (NIV 11)

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¹ Woe to the land of whirring wings[43] along the rivers of Cush,[44]

² which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

³ All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it.

⁴ This is what the LORD says to me: “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew 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 the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.

⁶ They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey and to the wild animals; the birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all winter.

⁷ At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD Almighty.

#	NIV 11
1	Woe to the land of whirring wings[43] along the rivers of Cush,[44]
2	which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
3	All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it.
4	This is what the LORD says to me: “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew 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 the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.
6	They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey and to the wild animals; the birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all winter.
7	At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD Almighty.

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^{Isaiah 18:1 [123]} 2 Sam 22:1-51

^{Isaiah 18:4 [124]} Or ungodliness; Heb Belial

^{Isaiah 18:4 [125]} Or were assailing; or terrifying

^{Isaiah 18:5 [126]} I.e., the netherworld

^{Isaiah 18:8 [127]} Or in His wrath

^{Isaiah 18:11 [128]} Or pavilion

^{Isaiah 18:14 [129]} Lit confused

^{Isaiah 18:23 [130]} Lit complete; or having integrity; or perfect

^{Isaiah 18:25 [131]} See note v 23

^{Isaiah 18:26 [132]} Lit twisted

^{Isaiah 18:29 [133]} Or wall

^{Isaiah 18:30 [134]} Or perfect

^{Isaiah 18:32 [135]} Or has made

^{Isaiah 18:32 [136]} Lit complete; or having integrity

^{Isaiah 18:35 [137]} Or condescension

^{Isaiah 18:36 [138]} Lit ankles

^{Isaiah 18:40 [139]} Or silenced

^{Isaiah 18:45 [140]} Or prisons

^{Isaiah 18:50 [141]} I.e., victories; lit salvations

^{Isaiah 18:50 [142]} Lit seed

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