Isaiah 18

Verse 1

WEB Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

KJV Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

TSK the land: isa 20:3-6, isa 30:2,3, isa 31:1; shadowing: ru 2:12, ps 17:8, ps 36:7, ps 57:1, ps 61:4, ps 63:7, ps 91:4, mt 23:37; which: 2ki 19:9, eze 30:4,5, zep 2:12, zep 3:10

Verse 2

WEB that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”

KJV That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

TSK sendeth: isa 30:2-4, eze 30:9; to a people: ge 10:8,9, 2ch 12:2-4, 2ch 14:9, 2ch 16:8; have spoiled: isa 19:5-7

Verse 3

WEB All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

KJV All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

TSK All ye: isa 1:2, ps 49:1,2, ps 50:1, jer 22:29, mic 6:2; see ye: isa 5:26, isa 7:18, isa 13:2,4, isa 26:11, am 3:6-8, mic 6:9, zec 9:14, mt 13:9,16

Verse 4

WEB For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

KJV For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

TSK I will: isa 26:21, ps 132:13,14, ho 5:15; consider in my dwelling place: isa 18:7, isa 12:6, isa 14:32, isa 31:9, isa 46:13, joe 3:17; like a clear: 2sa 23:4, ps 72:6

Verse 5

WEB For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

KJV For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

TSK For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.: isa 17:11, so 2:13,15, eze 17:6-10

Verse 6

WEB They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.

KJV They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

TSK They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.: isa 14:19, isa 34:1-7, jer 7:33, jer 15:3, eze 32:4-6, eze 39:17-20, re 19:17,18

Verse 7

WEB In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.

KJV In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

TSK shall the: isa 16:1, isa 23:17,18, isa 45:14, 2ch 32:23, ps 68:29-31, ps 72:9-15, zep 3:10, mal 1:11, mt 2:11, ac 8:27,28; to the: isa 18:4, isa 60:6-9, mic 4:13, zec 14:16,17