“ Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: ”
Woe to the land - ( הוי hôy ). This word, as has been already remarked (the note at Isaiah 17:12 ), may be a mere interjection or salutation, and would be appropriately rendered by ‘Ho!’ Or i...
Woe to the (a) land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Cush: (a) He means that part of Ethiopia which lies toward the sea, which was so full of ships that the sails (which he comp...
Isaiah 18. Isaiah Discourages the Schemes of Ethiopia. This chapter is probably connected with the policy of the Egyptian alliance so frequently denounced by Isaiah in 29- 31. Here the negotiations...
Woe . Ho! The third of the seven burdens. land. beyond: i.e. land. beyond Abyssinia. shadowing with wings . of the rustling zalzal (from zalal, to tinkle, compare Deuteronomy 28:42 ).
1. Woe to the land. I cannot determine with certainty what is the nation of which Isaiah speaks, though he shews plainly that it bordered on Ethiopia. Some consider it to refer to the who...
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: Wo to the land - הוי ארץ hoi arets! This interjection should be translated ho! for it is properly a particle of calling...
Woe to the land— The fourth member of this prophesy is contained in the present chapter; which, being another part of the second section, connects with the preceding most closely, as containing an...
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: Isaiah announces the overthrow of Sennacherib's hosts, and desires the Ethiopian ambassadors, now in Jerusalem, to...
RV 'Ah, the land of the rustling of wings,' probably alluding to the buzzing swarms of flies characteristic of Ethiopia (the land between the Upper Nile and the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf), but some...
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24-32 ; Isaiah 15:1-9 ; Isaiah 16:1-14 ; Isaiah 17:1-14 ; Isaiah 18:1-7 ; Isaiah 19:1-25 ; Isaiah 20:1-6 ; Isaiah 21:1-...
This is the second of the prophet's soliloquies, and is of the nature of a proclamation to certain ambassadors who are charged to return to their people and to wait for Jehovah. This charge is delive...
CONTENTS This Chapter, like the former, is full of threatenings to the people to whom it refers, on account of their ill-will to Israel. It is but short, but it contains heavy tidings. Isaiah 18:1...
Woe to the land shadowing with wings ,.... Or, "O land", as calling to it; so Aben Ezra and Kimchi. It is very difficult to determine what land is here meant: some think the land of Assyria is here...
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: Ver. 1. Woe to the land. ] To Ethiopia, described here, (1.) By the shady mountains wherewith it is surrounded; (2.)...
Wo to the land Or, rather, as Bishop Lowth renders it, and as the particle הוי, here used, undoubtedly means, Isaiah 55:1 , and elsewhere, Ho! to the land. The words seem evidently to contain an...
Judgments Denounced. B. C. 712. 1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyon...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 18 God, in defence of his church and punishing her enemies, will destroy the Ethiopians, Isaiah 18:1-6 : an access thereby shall be to the church, Isaiah 18:7 . The land; eit...
Analysis of Isaiah 18:1-7 . a Ah, the land of the whirring of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush, which sends messengers by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters. “Go you swif...
Isaiah 18:1 . Woe to the land shadowing with wings ranges of inaccessible mountains called the mountains of the moon, and those to the east between the Nile and the Red sea. The Nile divided amidst...
Woe to the land shadowing with wings The Ethiopians The people here peculiarly described are the Ethiopians, and the prophet prophesies the effect on Ethiopia of the judgment concerning Assyria...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 18:1-23 THE HOMAGE OF ETHIOPIA TO JEHOVAH . Amid the general excitement caused by the advance of Assyria, Ethiopia also is stirred, and stirred to its furthest...
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, the land of Cush in the upper reaches of the Nile, the land of whirring wings, where tropical insects are found in great...
2 Kings 19:9 ; Ezekiel 30:4 ; Ezekiel 30:5 ; Isaiah 20:3-6 ; Isaiah 30:2 ; Isaiah 30:3 ; Isaiah 31:1 ; Matthew 23:37 ; Psalms 17:8 ; Psalms 36:7 ; Psalms 57:1 ; Psalms 61:4 ; Psalms 63:7...
The lord — Either Ethiopia beyond Egypt; or of Egypt. Wings — The title of wings is given, in scripture, to divers things which have some kind of resemblance to wings, as to the battlements of an h...