Isaiah 18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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).

the sea. the Nile. So called by the inhabitants of the Sudan to-day.

bulrushes. reeds. Not the papyrus, but its companion reed, the ambach, which reaches. height of fifteen feet and has yellow flowers.

scattered and peeled. "tall and smooth-faced".

terrible. They formed the armies of "So" or Sha-baka, and are the backbone of the Anglo-Egyptian army.

whose land the rivers have spoiled: i.e. the "sudd" or swamps (hence Sudan). The Dinka and Shilluk negroes live on the floating cakes of sudd.

He =. Jehovah. See Structure, above.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

cloud of dew. summer night mist. Hebrew. 'ab. Not. raincloud, which latter is never seen in harvest. Eight times rendered "thick clouds".

left. See note on "forsaken" (Isaiah 1:4).

fowls. beasts. Note the Alternation.

present. Hebrew shai, because of being conveyed. Only here, and Psalms 68:29; Psalms 76:11.

the LORD of hosts. See note on Isaiah 1:9.

the name. See note on Psalms 20:1.