KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 18
Jehovah will destroy the Ethiopians fir His people. By this they will gain access.
1Woe to the land of whirring of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2which sends envoys by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the face of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a dreadful people from it and onwards; and a nation mighty and trampling down, whose land the rivers have divided!
3All those living in the world and those living on the earth, as one lifts a sign on the hills, you will see. And you will hear as the blowing of a rams` horn.
4For so Jehovah said to me, I will rest, and I will watch My dwelling place; as the glowing heat on light; as the cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives, cut down and take away the branches,
6And they shall be left together to the birds of prey of the hills, and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey shall summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter on them.
7Then shall be brought in that time to Jehovah of Hosts a present from a tall and smooth people, and a dreadful people, from it and onward; a nation of might, with a measuring line of trampling, whose land the rivers have divided, to the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts: Mount Zion.
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