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Isaiah 18:1-2
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God’s Message to Cush

18 How terrible it will be for the land beyond the rivers of Cush.
    It is filled with the sound of wings.
2 That land sends people across the sea.
    They go on the water in boats made of reeds.

Quick messengers, go
    to the people who are tall and smooth-skinned.
    They are feared everywhere.
They are a powerful nation with strange speech.
    They defeat the other nations.
Their land is divided by rivers.

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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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