| Isa. 18:1 |
Woe to the land of the whirring of wings, / Which is beyond the rivers of Cush, |
| Isa. 18:2 |
[The land] that sends envoys on the sea, / Even in papyrus vessels upon the surface of the water. / Go, swift messengers, / To a nation tall and smooth [of skin,] / To a people feared from there and beyond, / A nation of command upon command and of treading down [others,] / Whose land the rivers cut through. |
| Isa. 18:3 |
All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth, / When the standard is raised on the mountains, you will see [it;] / And when the horn is blown, you will hear [it.] |
| Isa. 18:4 |
For thus has Jehovah spoken to me, / I will be quiet and observe in My lodging place, / Like glowing heat in the sunshine, / Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. |
| Isa. 18:5 |
For before the harvest, when the bud is full / And the flower becomes the ripening grape, / He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives, / And the tendrils He will remove [and] cut away. |
| Isa. 18:6 |
They will be left together for the mountain birds / And for the beasts of the earth. / And the birds will spend summer on them, / And all the beasts of the earth will spend harvest time on them. |
| Isa. 18:7 |
At that time a gift will be brought to Jehovah of hosts from a people tall and smooth [of skin,] even from a people feared from there and beyond, a nation of command upon command and of treading down [others,] whose land the rivers cut through, unto the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, Mount Zion. |