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Podcast: John’s iPad reads The Bible
Episode: Isaiah 18-19a All you peoples of the world, listen! Tribute will be brought to Mount Zion, the place where the Lord who commands armies has chosen to reside. The idols of Egypt tremble before him!
Description: AN ORACLE CONCERNING CUSH (0:00)
The land of buzzing wings is as good as dead, the one beyond the rivers of Cush (Ethiopia), that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water's surface in boats made of papyrus. (0:24) Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, to a people that are feared far and wide, to a nation strong and victorious, whose land is cut through by rivers.
(1:09) All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give...