Isaiah 18:1

A Prophecy Against Cush

1 Woe to the land of whirring wings[a]along the rivers of Cush,[b]

Isaiah 18:1 in Other Translations

KJV
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
ESV
1 Ah, land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush,
NLT
1 Listen, Ethiopia —land of fluttering sails that lies at the headwaters of the Nile,
MSG
1 Doom to the land of flies and mosquitoes beyond the Ethiopian rivers,
CSB
1 Ah! The land of buzzing insect wings beyond the rivers of Cush

Isaiah 18:1 In-Context

1 Woe to the land of whirring wingsalong the rivers of Cush,
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.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Isaiah 5:8
  • 2. S Genesis 10:6; S Psalms 68:31; S Ezekiel 29:10; Isaiah 20:3-5; Eze 30:4-5,9; Zephaniah 2:12; Zephaniah 3:10

Footnotes 2

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