Isaiah 18 -- Old Testament -- Gospel Daily

Isaiah

Chapter 18

Ethiopia and the LORD's Rest

Woe to the land shadowing with wings beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, which sends ambassadors by the sea in vessels of bulrushes to a nation scattered and peeled, terrible from the beginning. The LORD lifts up an ensign on the mountains and blows a trumpet; all inhabitants of the earth shall see and hear. The LORD says He will take His rest and consider in His dwelling place, and afore the harvest He shall cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks and take away the branches. The fowls and beasts shall feed upon the cut branches. In that time, the scattered and peeled people shall bring a present unto the LORD of hosts at Mount Zion.

Judgment on distant nationsGod's rest and considerationPruning and cutting offOffering brought to Zion

¹Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

²That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

³All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

⁴For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

⁵For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

⁶They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

⁷In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.