Isaiah 18

1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;Cross-references: Ruth 2:12 · 2Ki 19:9 · Ps 17:8 · Ps 36:7 · Ps 57:1 · Ps 61:4 · +10 more

2that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”Cross-references: Gen 10:8 · Ex 2:3 · 2Chr 12:2 · 2Chr 14:9 · 2Chr 16:8 · Isa 18:7 · +3 more

3All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!Cross-references: Ps 49:1 · Ps 50:1 · Isa 1:2 · Isa 5:26 · Isa 7:18 · Isa 13:2 · +9 more

4For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”Cross-references: 2Sam 23:4 · Ps 72:6 · Ps 132:13 · Isa 12:6 · Isa 14:32 · Isa 18:7 · +7 more

5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.Cross-references: Song 2:13 · Song 2:15 · Isa 17:10 · Ezek 17:6

6They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.Cross-references: Isa 14:19 · Isa 34:1 · Isa 56:9 · Jer 7:33 · Jer 15:3 · Ezek 32:4 · +2 more

7In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.Cross-references: 2Chr 32:23 · Ps 68:29 · Ps 72:9 · Isa 16:1 · Isa 18:4 · Isa 23:17 · +8 more