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Isaiah 18
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
Woe to the land of whirring wings (note: Or of many locusts), along the rivers of Cush (note: That is, the upper Nile region),
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled (note: Or, outspread and polished), to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down (note: Or, a nation that meteth out, and treadeth down. Heb. a nation of line line, and treading under foot), whose land the rivers have spoiled (note: Or, whose land the rivers despise)!
which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.
For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place (note: Or, regard my set dwelling) like a clear heat upon herbs (note: Or, after rain), and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.
They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.
In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled (note: Or, outspread and polished. etc.), and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.
At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.