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Isaiah 18

7 aligned verses; 7 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse ASV American Standard Version BSB Berean Standard Bible
Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,
that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters , `saying', Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward , a nation that meteth out and treadeth down , whose land the rivers divide!
which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters . Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth -skinned , to a people widely feared , to a powerful nation of strange speech , whose land is divided by rivers .
All ye inhabitants of the world , and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye ; and when the trumpet is blown , hear ye .
All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it ; when a ram’s horn sounds , you will hear it .
For thus hath Jehovah said unto me , I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling - place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
For this is what the LORD has told me : I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning -hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away `and' cut down .
For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.
They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains , and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them .
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey , and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer , and all the wild animals in winter.
In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts ` from ' a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward , a nation that meteth out and treadeth down , whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts , the mount Zion .
At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts from a people tall and smooth -skinned , from a people widely feared , from a powerful nation of strange speech , whose land is divided by rivers to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.

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