“Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,”
Isaiah 18
7 of 7 verses have a reading · Berean Standard Bible
1Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,
“Woe to the land shadowing with wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,”
“woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.”
2which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
“that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go ye swift messengers to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto, a nation meted out and…”
“which sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of reed on the water, saying, go swift messengers to a nation tall and smooth in skin, to a people terrible from the beginning onward, a nation powerful and treading down whose…”
3All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram's horn sounds, you will hear it.
“All the inhabitants of the world and the dwellers on the earth. When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it. And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.”
“All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountain, and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.”
“All ye inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth see ye when he, God, lifts up an ensign on the mountains and when he blows a trumpet, hear ye.”
4For this is what the LORD has told me: "I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
“For so the Lord said unto me I will take my rest and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon the herbs and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
“For so the Lord said to me, I will take my rest and I will look for my dwelling place like clear heat and sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.
“For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he will both cut off the sprigs with the pruning hooks and take away and cut down the branches.”
“For before the harvest, when the bud is perfecting and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, He shall cut off both the sprigs with pruning hooks and take away and cut down the branches.”
6They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.
“they shall be left together under the fowls of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the fowls shall summer upon them and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.”
“They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains and the beasts of the earth. And the fowls of shall summer upon them and all of the beast of the earth so winter upon them.”
“They will left to be together for the mountain birds of prey. And for the beast of the earth, the birds of prey will summer on them and the beast of the earth will winter on them.”
7At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts— from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
“In that time, a present will be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people tall and smooth of skin, and from a people terrible from the beginning onward, a nation powerful and treading down whose land the rivers divide, to the…”