Isa 18 | EngLXX | STEP | Woe to you, you⌃ wings of the land of ships, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.

Isaiah 18

1 Woe to you, you⌃ wings of the land of ships, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. 2 He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shallgo to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, andtrodden down. 3 Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country; their landshall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet. 4 For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noondayheat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest. 5 Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grapehas put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning-hooks,and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off; 6 And he shall leavethem together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls ofthe sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him. 7 In that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people afflicted andpeeled, and from a people great from henceforth and for ever; a nation hoping andyet trodden down, which is in a part of a river of his land, to the place where is the nameof the Lord of hosts, the mount Sion.