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    "chapter": 18
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    "n": 18,
    "bookSlug": "isaiah",
    "bookCode": "ISA",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ISA-18:1",
        "verseRef": "Isa.18.1",
        "text": "Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ISA-18:2",
        "verseRef": "Isa.18.2",
        "text": "that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ISA-18:3",
        "verseRef": "Isa.18.3",
        "text": "All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ISA-18:4",
        "verseRef": "Isa.18.4",
        "text": "For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ISA-18:5",
        "verseRef": "Isa.18.5",
        "text": "For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ISA-18:6",
        "verseRef": "Isa.18.6",
        "text": "They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ISA-18:7",
        "verseRef": "Isa.18.7",
        "text": "In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion."
      }
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