| Isaiah 18:1
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| 18:1
| Ah, land of the buzzing of wings,
Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
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| TJBU
| 18:1
| Ho! the land which is beyond the rivers of India, to which they come in ships from a far country, whose sails are spread as an eagle flieth with its wings.
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| Isaiah 18:2
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| 18:2
| 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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| TJBU
| 18:2
| That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in ships on the face of the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, unto a people oppressed and plundered, unto a people that was mighty in times past, and shall be so in time to come: a people oppressed and robbed, whose land the nations have spoiled.
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| Isaiah 18:3
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| JPS
| 18:3
| 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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| TJBU
| 18:3
| All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when the standard is lifted up on the mountains, ye shall see the standard, and the trumpet shall sound, ye shall hear of redemption.
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| Isaiah 18:4
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| JPS
| 18:4
| 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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| TJBU
| 18:4
| For thus hath the Lord said unto me: I will give rest to my people, yea, I will make them to rest, and I will delight in my holy habitation to do them good: blessings and consolations I will bring upon them quickly, when the heat is in tense through the heat of the sun, then I will be to them a cloud of dew as in the heat of harvest.
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| Isaiah 18:5
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| JPS
| 18:5
| 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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| TJBU
| 18:5
| Before the time of harvest cometh the tree is ready to bud, and the unripe grape bursts forth into a flower: He shall slay the rulers of the na tions with the sword, and their mighty ones He shall remove, and cause to pass away.
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| Isaiah 18:6
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| 18:6
| 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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| TJBU
| 18:6
| They shall be left together imto the fowl of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: all the fowls of the heavens shall dwell upon them in the summer, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them,
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| Isaiah 18:7
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| 18:7
| 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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| 18:7
| At that time shall one bring an oflfering unto the Lord of hosts, to a people oppressed and spoiled, to a people that was mighty in times past, and shall be so in time to come, a people op pressed and robbed, whose land the nations have spoiled, imto the place which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts, whose Shekinah is in the mountain of Zion.
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