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Isaiah 18:1-2
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A message about Cush[a]

18 It will be very bad for that land beyond the rivers of Cush. Their ships seem to have wings and fly everywhere! 2 They send messages over the sea in boats that they make from reeds. Their boats sail quickly on the water.

Go now! Take a message quickly.
Go to a country where the people are tall
    and their skin has no hair.
Everyone is afraid of that nation's people.
They are a powerful and strong nation.
        Many rivers cross their land.

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Footnotes

  1. 18:1 There were two places called Cush 2,700 years ago. One place was near Ethiopia and the other place was near Iraq. Most Bible students think that here it means the place near Ethiopia.
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Isaiah 18:1-2
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A Prophecy Against Cush

18 Woe(A) to the land of whirring wings[a]
    along the rivers of Cush,[b](B)
2 which sends envoys(C) by sea
    in papyrus(D) boats over the water.

Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,(E)
    to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive(F) nation of strange speech,
    whose land is divided by rivers.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 18:1 Or of locusts
  2. Isaiah 18:1 That is, the upper Nile region
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