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Isaiah 18:1-2
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God’s Message to Ethiopia

18 Look at the land along the rivers of Ethiopia where you can hear the buzzing of insect wings. 2 That land sends people down the Nile River in reed boats.[a]

Fast messengers, go to the people
    who are tall and smooth,
    who are feared far and wide.
Go to that powerful nation that defeats other countries
    and whose land is divided by rivers.
    Go warn them!

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  1. Isaiah 18:2 reed boats These boats were made by tying many reeds (a type of water plant) together.
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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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