Isaiah 18:2
who send ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters. 1 Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, 1 to a people feared far and near, a nation strong and trampling down, whose land the rivers divide. 1
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1Woe to the land of the rustling of wings, which is along the rivers of Cush; 1
Cross References
Genesis 10:8Cush became the father of Nimrod, who was the first conqueror on the earth.
2 Chronicles 12:2It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because the people had been unfaithful to Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 16:8Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a huge army, with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he gave you victory over them.
Isaiah 19:5The waters of the sea will dry up, and the river will dry up and become empty. 1
Ezekiel 30:9In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to terrorize a secure Cush, and there will be anguish among them on the day of Egypt's doom. For behold! It is coming.
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 →