Isaiah
18
- Woe to the land of whirring wings along
the rivers of Cush,
- which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats
over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose
land is divided by rivers.
- All you people of the world, you who live
on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and
when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it.
- This is what the LORD says to me: "I
will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering
heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
- For, before the harvest, when the blossom
is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots
with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.
- They will all be left to the mountain birds
of prey and to the wild animals; the birds will feed on them all summer, the
wild animals all winter.
- At that time gifts will be brought to the
LORD Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared
far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided
by rivers--the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name
of the LORD Almighty.
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