Woe to the (a) land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Cush: (a) He means that part of Ethiopia which lies toward the sea, which was so full of ships that the sails (which he compares to wings) seemed to shadow the sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of (b) bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], (c) Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and stripped, to a (d) people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the (e) rivers have lai... [ Continue Reading ]
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when (f) he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. (f) When the Lord prepared to fight against the Ethiopians.... [ Continue Reading ]
For so the LORD said to me, I will take my (g) rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a (h) clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. (g) I will stay a while from punishing the wicked. (h) Which two seasons are profitable for the ripening of fruit, by wh... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains, and to the (i) beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. (i) Not only men will contemn them, but the brute beast.... [ Continue Reading ]
In that time shall the (k) present be brought to the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and stripped, and from a people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, th... [ Continue Reading ]