Isaiah 18
1Woe
to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye
swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out
and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
3All
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.
4For so the LORD
said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud
of dew in the heat of harvest.
5For 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.
6They
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.
7In
that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, 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.
