--- title: Isaiah 18 — the Tanakh in Hebrew, Aramaic and English, with trees description: Isaiah chapter 18 of the Tanakh (Nevi'im — the Prophets) in Hebrew, Aramaic (Targum Jonathan) and English (JPS 1917), every verse with its syntax tree and pragmatics. It begins: Ah, land of the buzzing of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/) / chapter 18 # Isaiah 18 7 verses, each with its tree and pragmatics: Hebrew, Aramaic (Targum Jonathan) and English (JPS 1917), the English sentence by sentence. - [18:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.1/) — הוֹי אֶרֶץ צִלְצַל כְּנָפָיִם אֲשֶׁר מֵעֵבֶר לְנַֽהֲרֵי־כֽוּשׁ׃ — Ah, land of the buzzing of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; - [18:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.2/) — הַשֹּׁלֵחַ בַּיָּם צִירִים וּבִכְלֵי־גֹמֶא עַל־פְּנֵי־מַיִם לְכוּ ׀ מַלְאָכִים קַלִּים אֶל־גּוֹי מְמֻשָּׁךְ וּמוֹרָט אֶל־עַם נוֹרָא מִן־הוּא וָהָלְאָה גּוֹי קַו־קָו וּמְבוּסָה אֲשֶׁר־בָּזְאוּ נְהָרִים אַרְצֽוֹ׃ — That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide! - [18:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.3/) — כָּל־יֹשְׁבֵי תֵבֵל וְשֹׁכְנֵי אָרֶץ כִּנְשֹׂא־נֵס הָרִים תִּרְאוּ וְכִתְקֹעַ שׁוֹפָר תִּשְׁמָֽעוּ׃ס — 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 horn is blown, hear ye. - [18:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.4/) — כִּי כֹה אָמַר יְהוָה אֵלַי אֶשְׁקֳטָה וְאַבִּיטָה בִמְכוֹנִי כְּחֹם צַח עֲלֵי־אוֹר כְּעָב טַל בְּחֹם קָצִֽיר׃ — For thus hath the LORD said unto me: I will hold Me still, and I will look on in My dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. - [18:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.5/) — כִּֽי־לִפְנֵי קָצִיר כְּתָם־פֶּרַח וּבֹסֶר גֹּמֵל יִֽהְיֶה נִצָּה וְכָרַת הַזַּלְזַלִּים בַּמַּזְמֵרוֹת וְאֶת־הַנְּטִישׁוֹת הֵסִיר הֵתַֽז׃ — For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off. - [18:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.6/) — יֵעָזְבוּ יַחְדָּו לְעֵיט הָרִים וּֽלְבֶהֱמַת הָאָרֶץ וְקָץ עָלָיו הָעַיִט וְכָל־בֶּהֱמַת הָאָרֶץ עָלָיו תֶּחֱרָֽף׃ — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.7/) — בָּעֵת הַהִיא יֽוּבַל־שַׁי לַיהוָה צְבָאוֹת עַם מְמֻשָּׁךְ וּמוֹרָט וּמֵעַם נוֹרָא מִן־הוּא וָהָלְאָה גּוֹי ׀ קַו־קָו וּמְבוּסָה אֲשֶׁר בָּזְאוּ נְהָרִים אַרְצוֹ אֶל־מְקוֹם שֵׁם־יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת הַר־צִיּֽוֹן׃ס — In that time shall a present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people tall and of glossy skin, and from a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. - ← previous: [Isaiah 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/17/) - next →: [Isaiah 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/19/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/)