(KJV) Isaiah 181
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⥃A Message to Cush
[1] Woe2 to the land3 shadowing4 with wings, which5 [is] beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:6 [2] That sendeth7 ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels8 of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation9 scattered and peeled10, to a people11 terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down12, whose land the rivers have spoiled13! [3] All ye14 inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye15, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. [4] For so the Lord said unto me, I will16 take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place17 like a clear18 heat upon herbs19, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. [5] 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.20 [6] 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.21
[7] [¶]In that time shall the22 present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled23, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the24 place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.
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Isa 18:1, God, in care of his people, will destroy the Ethiopians; Isa 18:7, An accession thereby shall be made to the church. ↩
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Bp. Lowth renders, after Bochart, "Ho! to the land of the winged cymbal;" which he thinks is a periphrasis for the Egyptian sistrum; and consequently, that Egypt, "which borders on the rivers of Cush," is the country to which the prophecy is addressed. If we translate "shadowing with wings," it may allude to the multitude of its vessels, whose sails may be represented under the notion of wings. ↩
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Ruth 2:12; Ps 17:8, Ps 36:7, Ps 57:1, Ps 61:4, Ps 63:7, Ps 91:4; Matt 23:37 ↩
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am cir, 3290, bc cir, 714 ↩
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It is well known that the Egyptians commonly used on the Nile a light sort of ships or boats made of the papyrus. See note on Exod 2:3. ↩
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or, outspread and polished, Or, as Bp. Lowth renders, "stretched out in length and smoothed." Egypt, which is situated between 24 degrees and 32 degrees n lat. and 30 degrees and 33 degrees e long., being bounded on the south by Ethiopia, on the north by the Mediterranean, on the east by the mountains of Arabia, and on the west by those of Lybia, is one long vale, 750 miles in length (through the middle of which runs the Nile), in breadth from one to two or three day's journey, and even at the widest part of the Delta, from Pelusium to Alexandria, not above 250 miles broad. ↩
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Gen 10:8-9; 2Chr 12:2-4, 2Chr 14:9, 2Chr 16:8, Heb ↩
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or, that meteth out and treadeth down, Heb. of line, line, and treading under foot, This is an allusion to the frequent necessity of having recourse to mensuration in Egypt, in order to determine their boundaries, after the inundation of the Nile had smoothed their land and effaced their landmarks; and to their method of throwing seed upon the mud, when the waters had subsided, and treading it in by turning their cattle into the fields. ↩
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or, despise, Isa 19:5-7 ↩
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Isa 5:26, Isa 7:18, Isa 13:2, Isa 13:4, Isa 26:11; Amos 3:6-8; Mic 6:9; Zech 9:14; Matt 13:9, Matt 13:16 ↩
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or, regard my set dwelling, Isa 18:7, Isa 12:6, Isa 14:32, Isa 31:9, Isa 46:13; Joel 3:17 ↩
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or, after rain ↩
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Isa 14:19, Isa 34:1-7; Jer 7:33, Jer 15:3; Ezek 32:4-6, Ezek 39:17-20; Rev 19:17-18 ↩
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Isa 16:1, Isa 23:17-18, Isa 45:14; 2Chr 32:23; Ps 68:29-31, Ps 72:9-15; Zeph 3:10; Mal 1:11; Matt 2:11; Acts 8:27-28 ↩