lSee Jer. 25:20
Isaiah 18:1-2
An Oracle Concerning Cush
1 Ah, land of awhirring wingsthat is beyond the rivers of bCush, ▼
▼Probably Nubia
2which dsends ambassadors by the sea,
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation etall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation fmighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.
Isaiah 20:3
3Then the Lord said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years gas a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush, ▼▼Probably Nubia
Isaiah 20:5
5 iThen they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.Ezekiel 30:5-6
5 jCush, and kPut, and Lud, and lall Arabia, and Libya, ▼▼With Septuagint; Hebrew Cub
and the people of the land that is in league, ▼▼Hebrew and the sons of the land of the covenant
shall fall with them by the sword. 6 “Thus says the Lord:
oThose who support Egypt shall fall,
and pher proud might shall come down;
qfrom Migdol to Syene
they shall fall within her by the sword,
declares the Lord God.
Zephaniah 2:12
12 rYou also, O Cushites,shall be slain by my sword.
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