Chapter 18

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am cir, 3290, bc cir, 714

Woe Bp. Lowth renders, after Bochart, "Ho! to the land of the winged cymbal;" which he thinks is a periphrasis for the Egyptian sistrum; and consequently, that Egypt, "which borders on the rivers of Cush," is the country to which the prophecy is addressed. If we translate "shadowing with wings," it may allude to the multitude of its vessels, whose sails may be represented under the notion of wings.

the land Isa 20:3-6, Isa 30:2-3, Isa 31:1

shadowing Ruth 2:12; Ps 17:8, Ps 36:7, Ps 57:1, Ps 61:4, Ps 63:7, Ps 91:4; Matt 23:37

which 2Kgs 19:9; Ezek 30:4-5; Zeph 2:12, Zeph 3:10


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sendeth Isa 30:2-4; Ezek 30:9

vessels It is well known that the Egyptians commonly used on the Nile a light sort of ships or boats made of the papyrus. See note on Exod 2:3.

to a nation Isa 18:7

scattered and peeled or, outspread and polished, Or, as Bp. Lowth renders, "stretched out in length and smoothed." Egypt, which is situated between 24 degrees and 32 degrees n lat. and 30 degrees and 33 degrees e long., being bounded on the south by Ethiopia, on the north by the Mediterranean, on the east by the mountains of Arabia, and on the west by those of Lybia, is one long vale, 750 miles in length (through the middle of which runs the Nile), in breadth from one to two or three day's journey, and even at the widest part of the Delta, from Pelusium to Alexandria, not above 250 miles broad.

to a people Gen 10:8-9; 2Chr 12:2-4, 2Chr 14:9, 2Chr 16:8, Heb

Meted out and trodden down or, that meteth out and treadeth down, Heb. of line, line, and treading under foot, This is an allusion to the frequent necessity of having recourse to mensuration in Egypt, in order to determine their boundaries, after the inundation of the Nile had smoothed their land and effaced their landmarks; and to their method of throwing seed upon the mud, when the waters had subsided, and treading it in by turning their cattle into the fields.

have spoiled or, despise, Isa 19:5-7


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All ye Isa 1:2; Ps 49:1-2, Ps 50:1; Jer 22:29; Mic 6:2

see ye Isa 5:26, Isa 7:18, Isa 13:2, Isa 13:4, Isa 26:11; Amos 3:6-8; Mic 6:9; Zech 9:14; Matt 13:9, Matt 13:16


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I will Isa 26:21; Ps 132:13-14; Hos 5:15

consider in my dwelling place or, regard my set dwelling, Isa 18:7, Isa 12:6, Isa 14:32, Isa 31:9, Isa 46:13; Joel 3:17

like a clear 2Sam 23:4; Ps 72:6

upon herbs or, after rain


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Isa 17:11; Song 2:13, Song 2:15; Ezek 17:6-10


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Isa 14:19, Isa 34:1-7; Jer 7:33, Jer 15:3; Ezek 32:4-6, Ezek 39:17-20; Rev 19:17-18


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shall the Isa 16:1, Isa 23:17-18, Isa 45:14; 2Chr 32:23; Ps 68:29-31, Ps 72:9-15; Zeph 3:10; Mal 1:11; Matt 2:11; Acts 8:27-28

scattered and peeled or, outspread and polished, Isa 18:2

to the Isa 18:4, Isa 60:6-9; Mic 4:13; Zech 14:16-17


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