Cush was a country that today forms part of southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
• ‘Clouds of insects’ is one possible translation of a very rare Hebrew form of words. Or the words may refer to the sails of small boats on the rivers. Either translation could correctly refer to the land of Cush.
CHAPTER XVIII _This chapter contains a very obscure prophecy; possibly_ _designed to give the Jews, and perhaps the Egyptians, whose_ _country is supposed to be meant_, 1, 2, _and with whom many J...
WOE TO THE LAND - (הוי _hôy_). This word, as has been already remarked (the note at Isaiah 17:12), may be a mere interjection or salutation, and would be appropriately rendered by ‘Ho!’ Or it may be...
CHAPTER 18 When Israel Will be Brought Back 1. _The land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia (Isaiah 18:1)_ 2. _The ambassadors sent (Isaiah 18:2)_ 3. _The trumpet blown and Jehovah's Message (Isaiah 18:3)...
ISAIAH 18. ISAIAH DISCOURAGES THE SCHEMES OF ETHIOPIA. This chapter is probably connected with the policy of the Egyptian alliance so frequently denounced by Isaiah in 29- 31. Here the negotiations se...
WOE. Ho! The third of the seven burdens. LAND. BEYOND: i.e. land. beyond Abyssinia. SHADOWING WITH WINGS. of the rustling _zalzal_ (from _zalal,_ to tinkle, compare Deuteronomy 28:42)....
The word rendered _woe_is here neither a -cry of pity" nor (as usually in Isaiah) of indignation. It is simply a particle of salutation (_heus_) as in ch. Isaiah 55:1; Zechariah 2:6-7 (10, 11 Heb.). R...
The charge to the Ethiopian envoys, along with a poetic description of the land and people. The tendency of the ancient world to idealise the Ethiopians is familiar to students of classical literature...
WOE TO THE LAND— The fourth member of this prophesy is contained in the present chapter; which, being another part of the second section, connects with the preceding most closely, as containing an ena...
C. INCESSANT EGYPTIANS - Chapter S 18-20 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 1. ETHIOPIA TEXT: Isaiah 18:1-7 1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 2 that sendeth ambassado...
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: Isaiah announces the overthrow of Sennacherib's hosts, and desires the Ethiopian ambassadors, now in Jerusalem, to brin...
18:1 Ha! (d-1) Or 'Woe to.'...
ETHIOPIA REASSURED Isaiah here addresses the Ethiopians, who, agitated at the advance of the Assyrians west-ward, were sending ambassadors to other states to organise resistance. He foretells the sudd...
RV 'Ah, the land of the rustling of wings,' probably alluding to the buzzing swarms of flies characteristic of ETHIOPIA (the land between the Upper Nile and the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf), but some see...
הֹ֥וי אֶ֖רֶץ צִלְצַ֣ל כְּנָפָ֑יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר מֵ...
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
This is the second of the prophet's soliloquies, and is of the nature of a proclamation to certain ambassadors who are charged to return to their people and to wait for Jehovah. This charge is deliver...
Woe to the (a) land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Cush: (a) He means that part of Ethiopia which lies toward the sea, which was so full of ships that the sails (which he compa...
_Cymbal. Or sistrum, commonly used in Egypt. Septuagint, "ship sails." --- Ethiopia, or Chus, lying between the Nile (the branches of which are styled rivers) and the Red Sea. He alludes to the kingdo...
CONTENTS This Chapter, like the former, is full of threatenings to the people to whom it refers, on account of their ill-will to Israel. It is but short, but it contains heavy tidings. Isaiah 18:1 T...
1._Woe to the land. _I cannot determine with certainty what is the nation of which Isaiah speaks, though he shews plainly that it bordered on _Ethiopia. _Some consider it to refer to the whole of Egyp...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 15, 16, 17, AND 18. In Chapter s 15 and 16 Moab is judged. They are warned that the throne of David shall be established, and the oppressor consumed out of th...
WOE TO THE LAND SHADOWING WITH WINGS,.... Or, "O land", as calling to it; so Aben Ezra and Kimchi. It is very difficult to determine what land is here meant: some think the land of Assyria is here des...
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: Ver. 1. _Woe to the land._] To Ethiopia, described here, (1.) By the shady mountains wherewith it is surrounded; (2.) B...
_Wo to the land_ Or, rather, as Bishop Lowth renders it, and as the particle הוי, here used, undoubtedly means, Isaiah 55:1, and elsewhere, _Ho! to the land._ The words seem evidently to contain an ad...
PROPHECY AGAINST ETHIOPIA....
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, the land of Cush in the upper reaches of the Nile, the land of whirring wings, where tropical insects are found in great n...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 18 God, in defence of his church and punishing her enemies, will destroy the Ethiopians, ISAIAH 18:1: an access thereby shall be to the church, ISAIAH 18:7. THE LAND; either, 1. Of Ara...
Isaiah 18:1 Woe H1945 land H776 shadowed H6767 wings H3671 beyond H5676 rivers H5104 Ethiopia H3568 the land -...
ANALYSIS OF ISAIAH 18:1. a Ah, the land of the whirring of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush, which sends messengers by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters. “Go you swift messen...
CONTENTS: Woe of the land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, in the day of Israel's regathering. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though God's covenant people are trampled on as a nation, scattered and abus...
Isaiah 18:1. _Woe to the land shadowing with wings_ranges of inaccessible mountains called the mountains of the moon, and those to the east between the Nile and the Red sea. The Nile divided amidst th...
_Woe to the land shadowing with wings_ THE ETHIOPIANS The people here peculiarly described are the Ethiopians, and the prophet prophesies the effect on Ethiopia of the judgment concerning Assyria wh...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 18:1 THE HOMAGE OF ETHIOPIA TO JEHOVAH. Amid the general excitement caused by the advance of Assyria, Ethiopia also is stirred, and stirred to its furthest limits. The king sends me...
Now in chapter 18, there are those that see the United States in chapter 18, but it is rather far-fetched and I am sorry that my mind can't stretch that far. I cannot see the United States in chapter...
2 Kings 19:9; Ezekiel 30:4; Ezekiel 30:5; Isaiah 20:3; Isaiah 30:2;...
The lord — Either Ethiopia beyond Egypt; or of Egypt. Wings — The title of wings is given, in scripture, to divers things which have some kind of resemblance to wings, as to the battlements of an hous...