Isaiah 18:7

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In that time shall a present be brought to Yahweh of Hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts, Mount Zion.

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Cush refers to the powerful kingdom south of Egypt, broadly associated with Nubia/Ethiopia along the Nile; the Nile’s waterways marked its identity and reach. Isaiah envisions people from this distant land bringing tribute to Mount Zion, Jerusalem, where the LORD has chosen to place his name.

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Isaiah 18:7 mentions Cush, Mount Zion and Nile.