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1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, โ€œGo, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!โ€

3 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

4 For Yahweh said to me, โ€œI will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.โ€

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

6 They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.

7 In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.

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Hebrew interlinear — Isaiah 18:1–7 (124 words)
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  1. ื”ึฅื•ึนื™hรดyhowy: oh!H1945
  2. ืึถึ–ืจึถืฅสพereแนฃerets: the earth (at large, or partitively a land)H776
  3. ืฆึดืœึฐืฆึทึฃืœแนฃilแนฃaltslatsal: a clatter; (abstractly) whirring (of wings)H6767
  4. ื›ึผึฐื ึธืคึธึ‘ื™ึดืkฤ•nฤpฤyimkanaph: an edge or extremityH3671
  5. ืึฒืฉืึถึฅืจสพฤƒลกeraher: who, which, what, that; (as adverb) when, where, howH834
  6. ืžึตืขึตึ–ื‘ึถืจmฤ“สฟฤ“ber`eber: (properly) a region acrossH5676
  7. ืœึฐื ึทึฝื”ึฒืจึตื™lฤ•nahฤƒrรชnahar: a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.)H5104
  8. ื›ึฝื•ึผืฉืืƒkรปลกKuwsh: Cush (or Ethiopia), the name of a son of Ham, and of his territoryH3568
2
  1. ื”ึทืฉืึผึนืœึตึจื—ึทhaลกลกลlฤ“aแธฅshalach: to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)H7971
  2. ื‘ึผึทื™ึผึธึœืbayyฤmyam: a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of waterH3220
  3. ืฆึดื™ืจึดึ—ื™ืแนฃรฎrรฎmtsiyr: a hinge (as pressed in turning); also a throe (as a phys. or mental pressure)H6735
  4. ื•ึผื‘ึดื›ึฐืœึตื™รปbiklรชkliy: something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)H3627
  5. ื’ึนืžึถืึฎgลmeสพgome': (properly) an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity)H1573
  6. ืขึทืœสฟal`al: above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of...H5921
  7. ืคึผึฐื ึตื™pฤ•nรชpaniym: the face (as the part that turns); (with prepositional prefix, as a preposition) before, etc.H6440
  8. ืžึทื™ึดืึ’mayimmayim: water; (figuratively) juiceH4325
  9. ืœึฐื›ึฃื•ึผื€lฤ•kรปhalak: a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)H1980
  10. ืžึทืœึฐืึธื›ึดึฃื™ืmalสพฤkรฎmmal'ak: a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)H4397
  11. ืงึทืœึผึดึ—ื™ืqallรฎmqal: light; (by implication) rapid (also adverbial)H7031
  12. ืึถืœสพelel: (properly) denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or amongH413
  13. ื’ึผื•ึนื™ึ™gรดygowy: a foreign nation; (hence) a GentileH1471
  14. ืžึฐืžึปืฉืึผึธึฃืšึฐmฤ•muลกลกฤkmashak: to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march...H4900
  15. ื•ึผืžื•ึนืจึธึ”ื˜รปmรดrฤแนญmowrat: obstinate, i.e. independentH4178
  16. ืึถืœสพelel: (properly) denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or amongH413
  17. ืขึทึฅืสฟam`am: a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel)H5971
  18. ื ื•ึนืจึธึ–ืnรดrฤสพyare': to fear; morally, to revereH3372
  19. ืžึดืŸminmin: (properly) a part of; (hence, prepositionally) from or out of (in many senses)H4480
  20. ื”ึฃื•ึผืhรปสพhuw': (the third person pronoun singular) he, she, or it (only expressed when emphatic or without a verb)H1931
  21. ื•ึธื”ึธึ‘ืœึฐืึธื”wฤhฤlฤ•สพรขhalah: to the distance, i.e. far away; (of time) thus farH1973
  22. ื’ึผึšื•ึนื™gรดygowy: a foreign nation; (hence) a GentileH1471
  23. ืงึทื•qวŽw
  24. ืงึธึฃื•qฤwqav-qav: stalwartH6978
  25. ื•ึผืžึฐื‘ื•ึผืกึธึ”ื”รปmฤ•bรปsรขmbuwcah: a tramplingH4001
  26. ืึฒืฉืึถืจสพฤƒลกeraher: who, which, what, that; (as adverb) when, where, howH834
  27. ื‘ึผึธื–ึฐืึฅื•ึผbozสพรปbaza': probably to cleaveH958
  28. ื ึฐื”ึธืจึดึ–ื™ืnฤ•hฤrรฎmnahar: a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.)H5104
  29. ืึทืจึฐืฆึฝื•ึนืƒสพarแนฃรดerets: the earth (at large, or partitively a land)H776
3
  1. ื›ึผึธืœkฤlkol: (properly) the whole; (hence) all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)H3605
  2. ื™ึนืฉืึฐื‘ึตึฅื™yลลกฤ•bรชyashab: (properly) to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet)H3427
  3. ืชึตื‘ึตึ–ืœtฤ“bฤ“ltebel: the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited)H8398
  4. ื•ึฐืฉืึนึฃื›ึฐื ึตื™wฤ•ลกลkฤ•nรชshakan: to reside or permanently stay (literally or figuratively)H7931
  5. ืึธึ‘ืจึถืฅสพฤreแนฃerets: the earth (at large, or partitively a land)H776
  6. ื›ึผึดื ึฐืฉื‚ึนืkinล›ลสพnasa': to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)H5375
  7. ื ึตึคืกnฤ“snec: a flag; (also) a sailH5251
  8. ื”ึธืจึดื™ืึ™hฤrรฎmhar: a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)H2022
  9. ืชึผึดืจึฐืึ”ื•ึผtirสพรปra'ah: to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and...H7200
  10. ื•ึฐื›ึดืชึฐืงึนึฅืขึทwฤ•kitqลaสฟtaqa`: to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument)H8628
  11. ืฉืื•ึนืคึธึ–ืจลกรดpฤrshowphar: a cornet (as giving a clear sound) or curved hornH7782
  12. ืชึผึดืฉืึฐืžึธึฝืขื•ึผืƒtiลกmฤสฟรปshama`: to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085
4
  1. ื›ึผึดื™ึฉkiykiy: (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below)H3588
  2. ื›ึนึจื”kลkoh: (properly) like this; (by implication, of manner) thus (or so)H3541
  3. ืึธืžึทึคืจสพฤmaramar: to say (used with great latitude)H559
  4. ื™ึฐื”ื•ึธื”ึ™yฤ•hwฤhYhovah: (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068
  5. ืึตืœึทึ”ื™สพฤ“layel: (properly) denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or amongH413
  6. ืึถืฉืึฐืงึณื•ื˜ึธึ–ื”สพeลกqลwแนญรขshaqat: to repose (usually figurative)H8252
  7. ื•ึฐืึทื‘ึผึดึฃื™ื˜ึธื”wฤ•สพabbรฎแนญรขnabat: to scan, i.e. look intently at; (by implication) to regard with pleasure, favor or careH5027
  8. ื‘ึดืžึฐื›ื•ึนื ึดึ‘ื™bimkรดnรฎmakown: (properly) a fixture, i.e. a basis; (generally) a placeH4349
  9. ื›ึผึฐื—ึนึฅืkฤ•แธฅลmchom: heatH2527
  10. ืฆึทื—ึ™แนฃaแธฅtsach: dazzling, i.e. sunny, bright, (figuratively) evidentH6703
  11. ืขึฒืœึตื™สฟฤƒlรช`al: above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of...H5921
  12. ืึ”ื•ึนืจสพรดrowr: illumination; (concretely) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)H216
  13. ื›ึผึฐืขึธึฅื‘kฤ•สฟฤb`ab: (properly) an envelope, i.e. darkness (or density, 2 Chron. 4H5645
  14. ื˜ึทึ–ืœแนญaltal: dew (as covering vegetation)H2919
  15. ื‘ึผึฐื—ึนึฅืbฤ•แธฅลmchom: heatH2527
  16. ืงึธืฆึดึฝื™ืจืƒqฤแนฃรฎrqatsiyr: severed, i.e. harvest (as reaped), the crop, the time, the reaper, or figurativelyH7105
5
  1. ื›ึผึดึฝื™kรฎkiy: (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below)H3588
  2. ืœึดืคึฐื ึตึคื™lipnรชpaniym: the face (as the part that turns); (with prepositional prefix, as a preposition) before, etc.H6440
  3. ืงึธืฆึดื™ืจึ™qฤแนฃรฎrqatsiyr: severed, i.e. harvest (as reaped), the crop, the time, the reaper, or figurativelyH7105
  4. ื›ึผึฐืชึธืkฤ•tฤmtamam: to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive (as follows)H8552
  5. ืคึผึถึ”ืจึทื—peraแธฅperach: a calyx (natural or artificial); (generally) bloomH6525
  6. ื•ึผื‘ึนึฅืกึถืจรปbลserbocer: sour grapeH1155
  7. ื’ึผึนืžึตึ–ืœgลmฤ“lgamal: to treat a person (well or ill), i.e. benefit or requiteH1580
  8. ื™ึดึฝื”ึฐื™ึถึฃื”yihฤ•yehayah: to exist; to be or becomeH1961
  9. ื ึดืฆึผึธึ‘ื”niแนฃแนฃรขnitstsah: a blossomH5328
  10. ื•ึฐื›ึธืจึทึคืชwฤ•kฤratkarath: to cut (off, down or asunder); (by implication) to destroy or consumeH3772
  11. ื”ึทื–ึผึทืœึฐื–ึทืœึผึดื™ืึ™hazzalzallรฎmzalzal: tremulous, i.e. a twigH2150
  12. ื‘ึผึทืžึผึทื–ึฐืžึตืจึ”ื•ึนืชbammazmฤ“rรดtmazmerah: a pruning-knifeH4211
  13. ื•ึฐืึถืชwฤ•สพeteth: (properly) self; (generally) used to point out the object of a verb (or preposition) more definitelyH853
  14. ื”ึทื ึผึฐื˜ึดื™ืฉืึ–ื•ึนืชhannฤ•แนญรฎลกรดtntiyshah: a tendril (as an offshoot)H5189
  15. ื”ึตืกึดึฅื™ืจhฤ“sรฎrcuwr: to turn off (literal or figurative)H5493
  16. ื”ึตืชึทึฝื–ืƒhฤ“taztazaz: to lop offH8456
6
  1. ื™ึตืขึธื–ึฐื‘ึคื•ึผyฤ“สฟozbรป`azab: to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etcH5800
  2. ื™ึทื—ึฐื“ึผึธื•ึ™yaแธฅdฤwyachad: (properly) a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedlyH3162
  3. ืœึฐืขึตึฃื™ื˜lฤ•สฟรชแนญ`ayit: a hawk or other bird of preyH5861
  4. ื”ึธืจึดึ”ื™ืhฤrรฎmhar: a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)H2022
  5. ื•ึผึฝืœึฐื‘ึถื”ึฑืžึทึ–ืชรปlฤ•behฤ•matbhemah: (properly) a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)H929
  6. ื”ึธืึธึ‘ืจึถืฅhฤสพฤreแนฃerets: the earth (at large, or partitively a land)H776
  7. ื•ึฐืงึธึคืฅwฤ•qฤแนฃquwts: to spend the harvest seasonH6972
  8. ืขึธืœึธื™ื•ึ™สฟฤlฤyw`al: above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of...H5921
  9. ื”ึธืขึทึ”ื™ึดื˜hฤสฟayiแนญ`ayit: a hawk or other bird of preyH5861
  10. ื•ึฐื›ึธืœwฤ•kฤlkol: (properly) the whole; (hence) all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)H3605
  11. ื‘ึผึถื”ึฑืžึทึฅืชbehฤ•matbhemah: (properly) a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)H929
  12. ื”ึธืึธึ–ืจึถืฅhฤสพฤreแนฃerets: the earth (at large, or partitively a land)H776
  13. ืขึธืœึธึฅื™ื•สฟฤlฤyw`al: above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of...H5921
  14. ืชึผึถื—ึฑืจึธึฝืฃืƒteแธฅฤ•rฤpcharaph.: to pull off; (by implication) to expose (as by stripping)H2778
7
  1. ื‘ึผึธืขึตืชึฉbฤสฟฤ“t`eth: time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etcH6256
  2. ื”ึทื”ึดึจื™ืhahรฎสพhuw': (the third person pronoun singular) he, she, or it (only expressed when emphatic or without a verb)H1931
  3. ื™ึฝื•ึผื‘ึทืœyรปbalyabal: (properly) to flow; causatively, to bring (especially with pomp)H2986
  4. ืฉืึทึœื™ลกayshay: a gift (as available)H7862
  5. ืœึทื™ื”ื•ึธึฃื”layhwรขYhovah: (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068
  6. ืฆึฐื‘ึธืึ—ื•ึนืชแนฃฤ•bฤสพรดttsaba': a mass of persons; (figuratively) a mass of thingsH6635
  7. ืขึทึšืสฟam`am: a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel)H5971
  8. ืžึฐืžึปืฉืึผึธึฃืšึฐmฤ•muลกลกฤkmashak: to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march...H4900
  9. ื•ึผืžื•ึนืจึธึ”ื˜รปmรดrฤแนญmowrat: obstinate, i.e. independentH4178
  10. ื•ึผืžึตืขึทึฅืรปmฤ“สฟam`am: a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel)H5971
  11. ื ื•ึนืจึธึ–ืnรดrฤสพyare': to fear; morally, to revereH3372
  12. ืžึดืŸminmin: (properly) a part of; (hence, prepositionally) from or out of (in many senses)H4480
  13. ื”ึฃื•ึผืhรปสพhuw': (the third person pronoun singular) he, she, or it (only expressed when emphatic or without a verb)H1931
  14. ื•ึธื”ึธึ‘ืœึฐืึธื”wฤhฤlฤ•สพรขhalah: to the distance, i.e. far away; (of time) thus farH1973
  15. ื’ึผึฃื•ึนื™ื€gรดygowy: a foreign nation; (hence) a GentileH1471
  16. ืงึทื•qวŽw
  17. ืงึธึฃื•qฤwqav-qav: stalwartH6978
  18. ื•ึผืžึฐื‘ื•ึผืกึธึ—ื”รปmฤ•bรปsรขmbuwcah: a tramplingH4001
  19. ืึฒืฉืึถึจืจสพฤƒลกeraher: who, which, what, that; (as adverb) when, where, howH834
  20. ื‘ึผึธื–ึฐืึคื•ึผbozสพรปbaza': probably to cleaveH958
  21. ื ึฐื”ึธืจึดื™ืึ™nฤ•hฤrรฎmnahar: a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.)H5104
  22. ืึทืจึฐืฆึ”ื•ึนสพarแนฃรดerets: the earth (at large, or partitively a land)H776
  23. ืึถืœสพelel: (properly) denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or amongH413
  24. ืžึฐืงึ›ื•ึนืmฤ•qรดmmaqowm: (properly) a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific)H4725
  25. ืฉืึตืลกฤ“mshem: an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individualityH8034
  26. ื™ึฐื”ื•ึธึฅื”yฤ•hwรขYhovah: (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068
  27. ืฆึฐื‘ึธืึ–ื•ึนืชแนฃฤ•bฤสพรดttsaba': a mass of persons; (figuratively) a mass of thingsH6635
  28. ื”ึทืจharhar: a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)H2022
  29. ืฆึดื™ึผึฝื•ึนืŸืƒแนฃiyyรดnTsiyown: Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of JerusalemH6726

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Strong's words in Isaiah 18 (6)
Strong's H776 — ืึถึ–ืจึถืฅ (สพereแนฃ)
erets (eh'-rets) n-f. 1. the earth (at large, or partitively a land) [from an unused root probably meaning to be firm] KJV: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.. Appears 6 times in Isaiah 18.
Strong's H1471 — ื’ึผื•ึนื™ึ™ (gรดy)
gowy (go'-ee) (rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}) n-m. 1. a foreign nation 2. (hence) a Gentile 3. (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts [apparently from the same root as H1465 (in the sense of massing)] KJV: Gentile, heathen, nation, people. See also: H1465. Appears 3 times in Isaiah 18.
Strong's H2022 — ื”ึธืจึดื™ืึ™ (hฤrรฎm)
har (har) n-m. 1. a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively) [a shortened form of H2042] KJV: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion. Root(s): H2042. Appears 3 times in Isaiah 18.
Strong's H3068 — ื™ึฐื”ื•ึธื”ึ™ (yฤ•hwฤh)
Yhovah (yeh-ho-vaw') n/p. 1. (the) self-Existent or Eternal 2. Jehovah, Jewish national name of God [from H1961] KJV: Jehovah, the Lord. Root(s): H1961 Compare: H3050, H3069. Appears 3 times in Isaiah 18.
Strong's H5104 — ืœึฐื ึทึฝื”ึฒืจึตื™ (lฤ•nahฤƒrรช)
nahar (naw-hawr') n-m. 1. a stream (including the sea 2. expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.) 3. (figuratively) prosperity [from H5102] KJV: flood, river. Root(s): H5102. Appears 3 times in Isaiah 18.
Strong's H5971 — ืขึทึฅื (สฟam)
`am (am) n-m. 1. a people (as a congregated unit) 2. specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel) 3. hence (collectively) troops or attendants 4. (figuratively) a flock [from H6004] KJV: folk, men, nation, people. Root(s): H6004. Appears 3 times in Isaiah 18.

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“The word of Isaiah: โ€œWoe to the wings of the vessels of the land, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: (woe to him) who sends sureties by the sea, and letters of papyrus [on the water; for nimble messengers will go] to a nation anxious and expectant, and a people strange and bitter...”

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