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Isaiah 18

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Oracle of Judgment on Cush

1 Ah! land of the whirring of wings,
    which is beyond the rivers of Cush,
2 that sends messengers by the sea
    and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters!
Go, swift messengers, to a tall[a] and smooth[b] nation,
    to a people feared near and far,[c]
a mighty, mighty[d] and trampling[e] nation,
    whose land rivers divide.
3 All you inhabitants of the world
    and dwellers of the earth,
when a signal is raised on the[f] mountains, you must look,
    and when a trumpet is blown,[g] you must listen!

4 For Yahweh said this to me:

"I will be quiet,
    and I will look from my dwelling place
like clear heat because of light,[h]
    like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is complete[i]
    and a blossom becomes ripening fruit,
and one cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks,
    and one removes, tears away the tendrils.
6 They shall all be left[j] for birds[k] of prey of the mountains
    and for the animals[l] of the earth.
And the birds[m] of prey will pass the summer on it,
    and every animal of the earth will winter on it.

7 At that time, a gift[n] will be brought to Yahweh of hosts

from a tall[o] and smooth[p] 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.

 
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