Isaiah 18
1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2 that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the
waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a
people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and
treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign
is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye.
4 For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in 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 blossom is over, and the flower becometh a
ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading
branches will he take away [and] cut down.
6 They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to
the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all
the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts [from] a people
tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a
nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the
place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.