Isaiah 18

Revised Geneva Translation

18 Oh, the land, shadowed with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,

² sending ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of reeds upon the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroad and plundered, to a revered people from their beginning onward, a subjugator nation whose land the rivers have spoiled!”

³ All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers in the Earth shall see when He sets up a sign in the mountains. And when He blows the trumpet, you shall hear.

⁴ For so the LORD said to me, “I will rest and behold in My Tabernacle, as the heat drying up the rain, as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

⁵ For before the harvest, when the sprout is finished and the grape is ripening in the bud, then he shall cut down the branches with hooks, and shall take away and cut off the branches.

⁶ They shall be left together for the birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the Earth. For the bird shall summer upon it and every beast of the Earth shall winter upon it.

⁷ At that time, a present shall be brought to the LORD of Hosts (a people who is scattered abroad and plundered, and from a revered people, from their beginning onward, a subjugator nation whose land the rivers have spoiled) to the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts: Mount Zion.