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The American Standard Version of 1901

Isaiah 18

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Ah, the land 1 of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of 2 Ethiopia; 1) Or shadowing with wings 2) Heb Cush

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that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, 1 even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying , Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation 2 tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation 3 that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers 4 divide! 1) Or and 2) Or dragged away and peeled 3) Or meted out and trodden down ; Heb of line, lien, and of treading down 4) Or have despoiled

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All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye.

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For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, 1 like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 1) Or when there is

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For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down.

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They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

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In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts from a people 1 tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion. 1) Or dragged away and peeled



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