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Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; See also: Zephaniah 3:10 2 Kings 19:9 Ezekiel 30:4-5that 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!” See also: Genesis 10:8-9 Isaiah 18:7 2 Chronicles 14:9All 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! See also: Isaiah 5:26 Isaiah 26:11 Matthew 13:16For 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.” See also: Hosea 5:15 Isaiah 26:21 Isaiah 18:7For 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. See also: Isaiah 17:10-11 Song of Songs 2:13 Song of Songs 2:15They 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. See also: Jeremiah 7:33 Ezekiel 39:17-20 Ezekiel 32:4-6In 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. See also: Zephaniah 3:10 Acts 8:27-28 Zechariah 14:16-17

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)5 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Isaiah 18:1

Ver. 1. Cymbal. Or sistrum, commonly used in Egypt. Sept. "ship sails." ---

Ethiopia, or Chus, lying between the Nile (the branches of which are styled rivers) and the Red Sea. He alludes to the kingdom of Tharaca. 4 K. xix. 8. C.

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Isaiah 18:2

Ver. 2. Ambassadors. Heb. "images," (Bochart) in honour of Adonis; (S. Cyr.) or rather Ezechias, or Tharaca send to demand troops. C. --- Bulrushes. Lit.

"paper." H. --- Formed of rushes which grow on the banks of the Nile. Pliny vii.

56. and xiii. 11. --- Angels. Or messengers. --- Pieces. With factions after the death of Sabacon, or by the inroads of Sennacherib. --- Other. He derides the vanity of the Egyptians. C. --- Expecting the overflowing of the Nile. H. --- Heb.

"of line," (C.) with which they marked out each person's property, after the waters had subsided. Strabo 17. --- Foot. They worked their dough with their feet, and sent swine to trample on the seed, which required no more cultivation. Herod. ii. 14. and 36. ---

Spoiled. The Nile made considerable alterations.

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Isaiah 18:4

Ver. 4. Place. God rules all with ease. --- Harvest. The allies shall comfort my people, (C.) or Sennacherib shall threaten ruin. H. --- But I will frustrate his evil designs. His army shall perish unexpectedly. v. 5. C. --- The Egyptians had sent messengers to assure the Israelites that they would come to assist them: but the prophet informs them of their own ruin. W.

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Isaiah 18:6

Ver. 6. Them. Their bodies shall lie unburied.

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Isaiah 18:7

Ver. 7. Sion. Egypt shall send presents to the Lord. 2 Par. xxxii. 23. C.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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