Isa 18 | ABEn | STEP | Woe, O land of boats of wings beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.

Isaiah 18

CHAPTER 18 An Elevated Nation

1 Woe, O land of boats of wings beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. 2 The one sending [⁵by ⁶the sea ¹treaties ²and ⁴letters ³Bibline papyrus] upon the water; [⁴shall go ¹for ²messengers ³of light] to [²nation ¹an elevated], and a strange people, and ill-tempered. Who is it beyond, a nation unhoped for, and [⁴being trampled ⁵now ¹the ²rivers ³of all the land]? 3 As a place being inhabited it shall be inhabited; their place as a signal flag [²from ³a mountain ¹should be lifted up]; as [²trumpet ³sound ¹an audible]. 4 Because thus said the lord to me; Safety will be in my city, as the light of sweltering heat at midday, and [²as ³a cloud ⁴of dew ⁵in the day ⁶of harvest ¹it will be]. 5 Before the harvest, whenever [²should be completely formed ¹the flower], and the unripe grape should blossom a flower being sour, that he shall remove the [²grape-clusters ¹small] with the pruning sickles; and the small vine branches he shall remove and shall cut off. 6 And he shall leave them behind together for the winged creatures of the heaven, and for the wild beasts of the earth. And [⁵shall be brought together ⁶upon ⁷them ¹the ²winged creatures ³of the ⁴heaven]; and all the wild beasts of the earth [²upon ³her ¹shall come]. 7 In that time [²shall be offered ¹gifts] to the lord of Hosts from a people being afflicted and being plucked, and from a people great from the present and into the eon of time; a nation hoping and being trampled, which is in a part of the river of his place, to the place where the name of the lord of Hosts is -- in [²mountain ¹the holy].