Isaiah18
Oracle of Judgment on Cush
1Ah! land of the whirring of wings,which is beyond the rivers of Cush,2that sends messengers by the seaand in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters!Go, swift messengers, to a ⸤tall⸥ and ⸤smooth⸥ nation,to a people feared ⸤near and far⸥, a ⸤mighty, mighty⸥ and trampling nation,whose land rivers divide.3All you inhabitants of the worldand dwellers of the earth,⸤when a signal is raised on the⸥ mountains, you must look,and ⸤when a trumpet is blown⸥, you must listen!4For Yahweh said this to me:“I will be quiet,and I will look from my dwelling placelike ⸤clear heat because of light⸥, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”5For before the harvest, ⸤when the blossom is complete⸥ and a blossom becomes ripening fruit,and one cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks,and one removes, tears away the tendrils.6They shall ⸤all be left⸥ for birds of prey of the mountainsand for the animals of the earth.And the birds of prey will pass the summer on it,and every animal of the earth will winter on it.7At that time, a gift will be brought to Yahweh of hostsfrom a ⸤tall⸥ and ⸤smooth⸥ people,and from a people feared near and far,a mighty, mighty and trampling nation,whose land the rivers divide,to the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts,the mountain of Zion.Logos Bible Software