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Isaiah 18 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 18
Proclamation Against Ethiopia
Prophecy Against Ethiopia
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1 Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings,
​​Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2 ​​Which sends ambassadors by sea,
​​Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,
​​“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,
​​To a people terrible from their beginning onward,
​​A nation powerful and treading down,
​​Whose land the rivers divide.”
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3 ​​All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth:
​​When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;
​​And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.
4 ​​For so the LORD said to me,
​​“I will take My rest,
​​And I will look from My dwelling place
​​Like clear heat in sunshine,
​​Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 ​​For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect
​​And the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
​​He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks
​​And take away and cut down the branches.
6 ​​They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey
​​And for the beasts of the earth;
​​The birds of prey will summer on them,
​​And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.
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7 ​​In that time a present will be brought to the LORD of hosts
​​From[fn] a people tall and smooth of skin,
​​And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,
​​A nation powerful and treading down,
​​Whose land the rivers divide—
​​To the place of the name of the LORD of hosts,
​​To Mount Zion.
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NKJV Footnotes
Following Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, and Vulgate; Masoretic Text omits From; Targum reads To.
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