Isaiah 18:7
In that time, a present will be brought to Adonai Tzva'ot [Yahweh Commander of heaven’s 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 Adonai Tzva'ot [Yahweh Commander of heaven’s armies], Mount Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking].
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Psalms 68:29Because of your temple at Jerusalem [City of peace], 2 kings shall bring presents to you. 1
Psalms 72:9+ 72:9. MP: Worshiped by “desert nomads” also called Shepherds, (this rendering is debated by Scholars). Could also be Gentile nations living in the surrounding desert lands. Could be Gentiles in general living in a figurative wilderness born outside God’s covenant then coming into the covenant. (Luke 2:8-15; John 10:16) Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. 2 His enemies shall lick the dust. + 72:9 “Lick the Dust” is a reference to Semetic custom of prostrating yourself before the Ruler one is subject to. This custom is referred to in (Is 49:23) also in prophecy of Messiah’s Kingship. 1
Isaiah 18:4For Adonai 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.”
Isaiah 45:14Yahweh [He sustains breathing] says: “The labor of Egypt [Abode of slavery], 2 and the merchandise of Ethiopia, 2 and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, 2 and they shall be yours. 1 They will go after you. 2 They shall come over in chains; 2 and they will bow down to you. 1 They will make supplication to you: 2 ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. 2 There is no other Elohim ·Deity, Judge·. 1
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 18:2-7
Judgments Denounced. ( b. c. 712.) 1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 2 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! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when… Read the whole commentary →