Isa 18 | NASB2020 | STEP | Woe , land of whirring wings Which lies beyond the rivers of Cush ,

Isaiah 18

Message to Ethiopia

1 Woe, land of whirring wings
Which lies beyond the rivers of ^{▼▼Or Ethiopia
,} ^bCush,
2 Which sends messengers by the sea,
Even in ^cpapyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation ^{▼▼Lit drawn out
,} ^etall and smooth,
To a people ^ffeared ^{▼▼Lit from it and beyond}far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.
3 ^hAll you who inhabit the world, and live on earth,
As soon as a flag is raised on the mountains, ⁱyou will see it,
And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.
4 For this is what the Lord has told me:

“I will quietly look ^{▼▼Lit in}from My ^kdwelling place
Like dazzling heat in the ^{▼▼Lit light
,} ^msunshine,
Like a cloud of ⁿdew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For ^obefore the harvest, as soon as the bud ^{▼▼Lit is finished}blossoms
And the flower becomes a ripening grape,
He will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,
And remove and tear away the spreading branches.
6 They will be left together for mountain birds ^qof prey,
And for the animals of the earth;
And the birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them,
And all the animals of the earth will spend harvest time on them.
7 At that time a gift of tribute will be brought to the Lord of armies
^{▼▼Some ancient versions and DSS; MT implies Consisting of a people}From a ^speople ^{▼▼Lit drawn out}tall and smooth,
From a people feared ^{▼▼Lit from it and beyond}far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation,
Whose land the rivers divide--
To the ^vplace of the name of the Lord of armies, to Mount Zion.