The Lord ’s Message to Cush

1
Ah! The land of buzzing insect wings(a)
beyond the rivers of Cush(A)
2
sends couriers by sea,
in reed vessels on the waters.


Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,(b)
whose land is divided by rivers.
3
All you inhabitants of the world
and you who live on the earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains, look!
When a trumpet sounds, listen!

Footnotes:

a. Isaiah 18:1: Or of sailing ships
b. Isaiah 18:2: Hb obscure

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