The Book of the Prophet Isaiah 18 The Destruction of the Assyrians Is Announced to Ethiopia

 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah 18

The Destruction of the Assyrians Is Announced to Ethiopia

1 Woe to the land that overshadows with its wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia!

2 That sends ambassadors by sea in reed boats upon the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation high and polished, to a people terrible from their beginning, to a nation of measure and shame, whose land the rivers divide."

3 All you inhabitants of the world, and you inhabitants of the land, when a standard is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.

4 For thus said the Lord to me: I will be quiet, watching from my dwelling, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 

5 For before the harvest, when the shoot is full and the sour grapes are ripe, he will prune the branches and take away the boughs and cut them off.

6 They will be left for the birds of the mountains and the wild animals; the birds of prey will summer on them, and all the wild animals will winter on them.

7 At that time he will bring to the Lord of hosts a tall and polished people, a terrible people from their beginnings, a nation of measures and oppression, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, to Mount Zion.