The word about the land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
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Isaiah 18:1–7: the text says, “Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, ‘Go, 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!’ 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!” At 18:4 the text says, “For the LORD said to me,” and the LORD says to the speaker (“I”), “I 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.” The text goes on, “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. They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter. In that time, a present will be brought to the LORD 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 the LORD of Armies, Mount Zion.” The text does not name the one the LORD speaks to at 18:4. The Korean Revised Version keeps 18:5–6 inside the LORD’s words, in his first person (내가 낫으로 그 연한 가지를 베며), and closes them at the end of 18:6 (과동하리라 하셨음이니라), where WEB closes the LORD’s words at the end of 18:4 and reads “he will cut off the sprigs” at 18:5.
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- ISA 18:1–7, engwebp
1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, 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!”
3All 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!
4For the LORD said to me, “I 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.”
5For 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.
6They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.
7In that time, a present will be brought to the LORD 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 the LORD of Armies, Mount Zion.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: The word about the land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia (event-isa-18-the-land-beyond-the-rivers-of-ethiopia) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/event/isa-18-the-land-beyond-the-rivers-of-ethiopia Current wording: Isaiah 18:1–7: the text says, “Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, ‘Go, 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!’ 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!” At 18:4 the text says, “For the LORD said to me,” and the LORD says to the speaker (“I”), “I 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.” The text goes on, “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. They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter. In that time, a present will be brought to the LORD 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 the LORD of Armies, Mount Zion.” The text does not name the one the LORD speaks to at 18:4. The Korean Revised Version keeps 18:5–6 inside the LORD’s words, in his first person (내가 낫으로 그 연한 가지를 베며), and closes them at the end of 18:6 (과동하리라 하셨음이니라), where WEB closes the LORD’s words at the end of 18:4 and reads “he will cut off the sprigs” at 18:5. Cited evidence: ISA 18:1–7, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.