Isaiah 18:1

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 numbers,

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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,...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 18. Isaiah Discourages the Schemes of Ethiopia. This chapter is probably connected with the policy of the Egyptian alliance so frequently de...
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 zal...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 trans...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: Isaiah announces the overthrow of Sennacherib's hosts, and desir...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ethiopia Reassured Isaiah here addresses the Ethiopians, who, agitated at the advance of the Assyrians west-ward, were sending ambassadors to othe...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 peo...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 s...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 h...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 th...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgments Denounced. B. C. 712. 1 Woe...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Biblical Illustrator

Woe to the land shadowing with wings The Ethiopians The people here peculiarly described are the Ethiopians, and the prophet prophesies the eff...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 18:1-23 THE HOMAGE OF ETHIOPIA TO JEHOVAH . Amid the general excitement caused by the advance of Assyria, Ethi...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 r...

¹ Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 18:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 18:1