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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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C. INCESSANT EGYPTIANS - Chapter S 18-20
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
1.
ETHIOPIA
TEXT: Isaiah 18:1-7
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Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia;
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that sendeth ambassado...
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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...
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18:1 Ha! (d-1) Or 'Woe to.'...
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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...
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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...
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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 sai...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 18
GOD WILL PUNISH CUSH
V1 *Woe to the country called Cush where cl...
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הֹ֥וי אֶ֖רֶץ צִלְצַ֣ל כְּנָפָ֑יִם
אֲשֶׁ֥ר מֵ...
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CHAPTER XVII
ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS
736-702 B.C.
Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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PROPHECY AGAINST ETHIOPIA....
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 18:1 Woe H1945 land H776 shadowed H6767 wings H3671 beyond
H5676 rivers H5104 Ethiopia H3568
the land -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Kings 19:9; Ezekiel 30:4; Ezekiel 30:5; Isaiah 20:3; Isaiah 30:2;...
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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...