LEB ISA Chapter 18

Oracle of Judgment on Cush

Go, swift messengers, to a[fn] and[fn] nation,
- to a people feared[fn]
a[fn] and trampling[fn] nation,
- whose land rivers divide.
- 3 you inhabitants of the world and dwellers of the earth,
[fn] mountains, you must look,
- and[fn] you must listen!
4 For Yahweh said this to me:“I will be quiet,
- and I will look from my dwelling place
like[fn]
- like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
- 5 the harvest,[fn] and a blossom becomes ripening fruit,
and one cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks,
- and one removes, tears away the tendrils.
- 6 [fn] for birds[fn] of prey of the mountains and for the animals[fn] of the earth.
And the birds[fn] of prey will pass the summer on it,
- and every animal of the earth will winter on it.
7 At that time, a gift[fn] will be brought to Yahweh of hostsfrom a[fn] and[fn] people,
- and from a people feared near and far,
a mighty, mighty and trampling nation,
- whose land the rivers divide,
to the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts,
- the mountain of Zion.

?:? Literally “stretched out”

?:? Literally “peeled,” “wiped clean,” or “hairless”

?:? Literally “from this and beyond”

?:? Perhaps this is a gibberish phrase in Hebrew, qaw-qaw

?:? Meaning uncertain

?:? Literally “as a raising of a signal”

?:? Literally “as a blowing of a trumpet”

?:? The meaning of this phrase is uncertain; perhaps the “light” is sunlight

?:? Literally “as a completion of a blossom”

?:? Literally “be left together”

?:? Hebrew “bird”

?:? Hebrew “animal”

?:? Hebrew “bird”

?:? Perhaps tribute is meant

?:? Literally “stretched out”

?:? Literally “peeled,” “wiped clean,” or “hairless”