Isaiah 18 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Message to Ethiopia

Isa 18:1Ah, land of whirring wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

Isa 18:2which sends ambassadors by the Nile, in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.

Isa 18:3

Isa 18:3All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear!

Isa 18:4

Isa 18:4For thus the LORD said to me: "I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

Isa 18:5

Isa 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he will hew away.

Isa 18:6

Isa 18:6They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter upon them.

Isa 18:7

Isa 18:7At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.

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Isaiah 18 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Message to Ethiopia

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