Bible verses about "cush" | CAB

¹³ And it was said to Abram, You shall surely know that your decendants shall be sojourners in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.

¹ And now thus says the Lord God that made you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name; you are Mine. ² And if you pass through water, I am with you; and the rivers shall not overflow you; and if you go through the fire, you shall not be burned; the flame shall not burn you. ³ For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, that saves you; I have made Egypt and Ethiopia your ransom, and have given Seba for you. ⁴ Since you became precious in My sight, you have become glorious, and I have loved you; and I will give men for you, and princes for your life. ⁵ Fear not; for I am with you; I will bring your seed from the east, and will gather you from the west. ⁶ I will say to the north, Bring; and to the south, Keep not back; bring My sons from the land afar off, and My daughters from the ends of the earth; ⁷ even all who are called by My name; for I have prepared him for My glory, and I have formed him, and have made him; ⁸ and I have brought forth the blind people; for their eyes are alike blind, and those that have ears are deaf. ⁹ All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them; who will declare these things? Or who will declare to you things from the beginning? Let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth. ¹⁰ Be My witnesses, and I too am a witness, says the Lord God, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know, and believe, and understand that I am He; before Me there was no other God, and after Me there shall be none. ¹¹ I am God; and beside Me there is no savior. ¹² I have declared, and have saved; I have reproached, and there was no strange god among you; you are My witnesses, and I am the Lord God, ¹³ even from the beginning; and there is none that can deliver out of My hands; I will work, and who shall turn it back? ¹⁴ Thus says the Lord God that redeems you, the Holy One of Israel; for your sakes I will send to Babylon, and I will stir up all that flee, and the Chaldeans shall be bound in ships. ¹⁵ I am the Lord God, your Holy One, who have appointed for Israel your king. ¹⁶ Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty water; ¹⁷ who brought forth chariots and horse, and a mighty multitude; but they have laid down, and shall not rise; they are extinct, as quenched flax. ¹⁸ Remember not the former things, and consider not the ancient things. ¹⁹ Behold, I will do new things, which shall presently spring forth, and you shall know them; and I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land; ²⁰ the beasts of the field shall bless Me, the owls and young ostriches; for I have given water in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land, to give drink to My chosen race, ²¹ My people whom I have preserved to tell forth My praises. ²² I have not now called you, O Jacob; neither have I made you weary, O Israel. ²³ You have not brought Me the sheep of your whole burnt offering; neither have you glorified Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with sacrifices, neither have I wearied you with frankincense. ²⁴ Neither have you purchased for Me victims for silver, neither have I desired the fat of your sacrifices; but you stood before Me in your sins, and in your iniquities. ²⁵ I, even I, am He that blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and your sins; and I will remember them no more. ²⁶ Put Me in rememberance, and let us contend together; confess your transgressions first, that you may be justified. ²⁷ Your fathers first, and your princes have transgressed against Me. ²⁸ And the princes have defiled My sanctuaries; so I gave Jacob to enemies to destroy, and Israel to reproach.

⁶ And the sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

¹¹ And it shall be in that day, that the Lord shall again show His hand, to be zealous for the remnant that is left of the people, which shall be left by the Assyrians, and that from Egypt, and from the country of Babylon, and from Ethiopia, and from the Elamites, and from the rising of the sun, and out of Arabia.

¹³ And the name of the second river is Gihon, this it is which encircles the whole land of Ethiopia.

¹⁴ Thus says the Lord of hosts, Egypt has labored for you; and the merchandise of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over to you, and shall be your servants; and they shall follow after you bound in fetters, and shall pass over to you, and shall bow down to you, and make supplication to you; because God is in you; and there is no God beside You, O Lord.