Isaiah 18

Isaiah 18
The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book Book of Isaiah
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 23
Category Nevi'im

Isaiah 18 is the eighteenth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.[1][2]

This chapter is sub-titled "Proclamation against Ethiopia" in the New King James Version but the title in the English Revised Version, "A Message to Ethiopia" is preferred by some commentators: "The heading in the English Version, "God will destroy the Ethiopians", is a mistake arising from the wrong rendering "Woe",[3] whereas the Hebrew does not express a threat, but is an appeal calling attention: "Ho". He (Isaiah) is not speaking against but to the Ethiopians, calling on them to hear his prophetical announcement as to the destruction of their enemies".[4]

Text

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Verse 1

Woe to the land shadowing with wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:[6]
  • "Shadowing with wings" (NKJV: "shadowed with buzzing wings"), translated from Hebrew: כנפים צלצל tsı̂letsal kenāpāı̂ym. The New Oxford Annotated Bible renders it "land of whirring wings" and interprets it as "Nubia/Ethiopia (Hebrew: "Cush") as an insect-infested land" (see Herodotus 2.95).[7]

Verse 2

Isaiah addresses Ethiopian ambassadors who have visited Jerusalem.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
  2. ↑ Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  3. ↑ Isaiah 18:1
  4. 1 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary on Isaiah 18, accessed 1 April 2018
  5. ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Isaiah 18:1
  7. ↑ The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1003-1004 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810

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