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| Isaiah 18:1 |
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Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which
is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: |
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| Isaiah 18:2 |
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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, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation
meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! |
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| Isaiah 18:3 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 18:4 |
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For 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. |
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| Isaiah 18:5 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 18:6 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 18:7 |
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In 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. |
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