Isa 18
1 An Elevated Nation
Woe, O land of boats of wings beyond
the rivers of Ethiopia.
2The 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]?
3As 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].
4Because 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].
5Before 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.
6And 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].
7In 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].