Isaiah 18:1–2
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A Message About Cush
18How terrible it will be for the land
whose armies are like large numbers of flying insects!
That land is along the rivers of Cush.
2Its people send messengers on the Nile River.
They travel over the water in papyrus boats.
Messengers, hurry back home!
Go back to your people,
who are tall and have smooth skin.
Everyone is afraid of them.
They are warriors.
Their language is different from ours.
Their land is divided up by rivers.
Copyright 1998 International Bible Society
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Ah, land of whirring wings
that is beyond the rivers of Cush,
which sends ambassadors by the sea,
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.
Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles
NIVNew International Version (2011)
Woe to the land of whirring wings
along the rivers of Cush,
which sends envoys by sea
in papyrus boats over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers.
Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.
CSBChristian Standard Bible
Woe to the land of buzzing insect wings
beyond the rivers of Cush,
which sends envoys by sea,
in reed vessels over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,
whose land is divided by rivers.
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
NLTNew Living Translation
Listen, Ethiopia—land of fluttering sails
that lies at the headwaters of the Nile,
that sends ambassadors
in swift boats down the river.
Go, swift messengers!
Take a message to a tall, smooth-skinned people,
who are feared far and wide
for their conquests and destruction,
and whose land is divided by rivers.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Ah! land of the whirring of wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Cush,
that sends messengers by the sea
and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters!
Go, swift messengers, to a tall and smooth nation,
to a people feared near and far,
a mighty, mighty and trampling nation,
whose land rivers divide.
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
Woe to the land shadowing with wings,
Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
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!
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