ULT ISA Chapter 18

18 Woe to the land of whirring of wings,

which is along the rivers of Cush,

2 the one sending envoys by sea

and in vessels of papyrus on the face of the waters!

Go back, swift messengers, to a nation heightened and shaved,

to a people feared from it and beyond,

a nation of line, line and trampling,

whose land rivers divide.

3 All dwellers of the world and inhabitants of the earth,

when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, may you see,

and when a shofar is blown, may you hear.

4 For thus Yahweh said to me,

“Let me be quiet and let me watch in my dwelling,

like heat glowing because of light,

like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

5 For to the face of the harvest,

when the blossom is complete

and the grape is ripening in the flower,

then he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks,

and the spreading branches, he will remove, he will cut off.

6 They will be left together for the bird of the mountains

and for the beast of the earth.

And the bird will summer on them,

and every beast of the earth will winter on them.

7 At that time, tribute will be brought to Yahweh of Armies

from a people heightened and smooth,

indeed, from a people feared from it and beyond,

a nation line, line and trampling,

whose land the rivers divide,

to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.