Isaiah 18

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1. (Is 18:1) Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2. (Is 18:2) @@that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, @9saying@7, 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. (Is 18:3) 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. (Is 18:4) 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. (Is 18:5) @@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 @9and@7 cut down.
6. (Is 18:6) 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. (Is 18:7) @@In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts @9from@7 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.