The Book of Isaiah
18: 1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
18:2that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the
waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people
terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down,
whose land the rivers divide! 18:3All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on
the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the
trumpet is blown, hear ye. 18:4For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still,
and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of
dew in the heat of harvest. 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over,
and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with
pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down.
18:6They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the
beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the
beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. 18:7In that time shall a present be
brought unto Jehovah of hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people
terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down,
whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the
mount Zion.