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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 53
for ancient Babylon. Cush’s empire was located along the Nile River in Egypt and Ethiopia with
the Nile being the Western boundary. Therefore, Isaiah was writing about a nation that was West
of the Nile, which would include the United States.
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The second verse of Isaiah refers to a nation that is scattered and peeled. This phrase is
describing the people within the nation. The world “peeled” comes from the Hebrew word “mo-
rawt,” which literally means independent.
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So this phrase is describing a nation where the
people are independent and scattered across the nation.
Isaiah 18 begins with a simple warning, “woe.” Woe comes from the Hebrew word
“howy.” The New Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew and Greek Words says that “howy” is akin to
“’owy” which literally means “lamentation.”
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Similarly woe means “sorrow; misery; also a
heavy calamity; a trouble; [or] affliction.”
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With the above in mind we can look at the entire text
of Isaiah 18, as I have retranslated, were appropriate, using the The New Strong’s Dictionary of
Hebrew and Greek Words and information from Rick Coombes:
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Heavy calamity, affliction and misery are upon the land that is filled with
the buzzing of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth war
ships by the sea to intimidate other nations, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the
waters. Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation of people who are scattered across
the land and fiercely independent, to a people feared (or revered) from their
beginning up till now; a powerful nation that conquers others, whose land the
rivers have divided! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,
see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a
trumpet, hear ye.
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For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will
consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of
dew in the heat of harvest.
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For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and
the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with
pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
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They shall be left
together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the
fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon
them.
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In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a
people scattered across the land and fiercely independent, and from a people
feared (or revered) from their beginning up till now; a powerful nation that
conquers others, whose land the rivers have divided, to the place of the name of
the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. (Isaiah 18:1-7, translation revised by author).
I think from this compilation you can see why many Bible scholars think this verse is
speaking about America. America is West of the Ethiopia, we are a large sparsely populated
nation with people scattered across it and we are very independent. We are the worlds only
remaining super-power and we use that power to intimidate other nations with our aircraft
carriers. Isaiah says this nation shall experience sorrow, misery, great calamity and affliction.
The New Living Translation says that, “destruction is certain for the land.”
Like the above chapter from Isaiah, most of the verses and chapters that deal with
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