203Or, shadowing with wings,
204Hb. Cush; See note on Ge 10:7-8.
18: 2 that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, 205even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation 206tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation 207that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers 208divide!
205Or, and
206Or, dragged away and peeled, And in vs. 7.
207Or, meted out and trodden down, Hb. of line, line, and of treading down,
208Or, have despoiled!
18: 3 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.
18: 4 For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, 209like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
209Or, when there is heat in sunshine,
18: 5 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.
18: 6 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.
18: 7 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.
