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Isaiah 18

7 aligned verses; 7 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse BSB Berean Standard Bible YLT Young's Literal Translation
Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,
Ho, land shadowed `with' wings, That `is' beyond the rivers of Cush,
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 .
That is sending by sea ambassadors , Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters , -- Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled , Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards , A nation meeting out by line , and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled .
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 .
All ye inhabitants of the world , And ye dwellers of earth, At the lifting up of an ensign on hills ye look , And at the blowing of a trumpet ye hear.
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 thus said Jehovah unto me , ` I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
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.
For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit , Then hath `one' cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down .
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 .
They are left together to the ravenous fowl of the mountains , And to the beast of the earth, And summered on them hath the ravenous fowl , And every beast of the earth wintereth on them .
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 .
At that time brought is a present to Jehovah of Hosts , A nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the beginning hitherto, A nation meting out by line , and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled , Unto the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts -- mount Zion!'

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