Isaiah 18 (NET)

Isaiah 18:1¹Beware, land of buzzing wings, the one beyond the rivers of Cush,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zeph 3:102 Kgs 19:9Ezek 30:4-5Zeph 2:12Ps 63:7Ezek 30:9Isa 20:3-6Isa 30:2-3Isa 31:1Matt 23:37

Isaiah 18:2²that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, to a people that are feared far and wide, to a nation strong and victorious, whose land rivers divide.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 10:8-9Isa 18:72 Chr 12:2-42 Chr 14:92 Chr 16:8Exod 2:3Ezek 30:9Isa 19:5-7Isa 30:2-4

Isaiah 18:3³All you who live in the world, who reside on the earth, you will see a signal flag raised on the mountains; you will hear a trumpet being blown.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:26Isa 26:11Amos 3:6-8Isa 1:2Isa 13:2Isa 13:4Isa 7:18Jer 22:29Matt 13:16Matt 13:9

Isaiah 18:4⁴For this is what the Lord has told me: “I will wait and watch from my place, like scorching heat produced by the sunlight, like a cloud of mist in the heat of harvest.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 5:15Isa 26:21Isa 18:72 Sam 23:4Isa 12:6Isa 14:32Ps 132:13-14Hos 14:5Isa 26:19Isa 31:9

Isaiah 18:5⁵For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 17:10-11Song 2:13Ezek 17:6-10Song 2:15

Isaiah 18:6⁶They will all be left for the birds of the hills and the wild animals; the birds will eat them during the summer, and all the wild animals will eat them during the winter.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 7:33Ezek 32:4-6Ezek 39:17-20Isa 14:19Isa 34:1-7Isa 56:9Jer 15:3Rev 19:17-18

Isaiah 18:7⁷At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, by a people that are tall and smooth-skinned, a people that are feared far and wide, a nation strong and victorious, whose land rivers divide. The tribute will be brought to the place where the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has chosen to reside, on Mount Zion.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zeph 3:10Acts 8:27-28Zech 14:16-172 Chr 32:23Isa 18:4Isa 45:14Mic 4:13Isa 16:1Isa 23:17-18Isa 60:6-9