Isaiah 18:1 (KJV)

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Woe to the land shadowing with wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
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Cross-references

the land. Isa 20:3-6 Isa 30:2 Isa 30:3 Isa 31:1

shadowing. Ru 2:12 Ps 17:8 Ps 36:7 Ps 57:1 Ps 61:4 Ps 63:7 Ps 91:4 Mt 23:37

which. 2Ki 19:9 Eze 30:4 Eze 30:5 Zep 2:12 Zep 3:10

7 An accession thereby shall be made to the church. A.M. cir. 3290. B.C. cir. 714. Woe.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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