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 see a reference to the disk with wings, which appears in ancient Egyptian paintings as a symbol of Ethiopian sovereignty.
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Isaiah 18:1
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: