Isaiah 18
A Prophecy concerning
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Woe to the land shadowing with wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 2.12
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that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even
in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift
messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible
from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down,
whose land the rivers have spoiled!
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All ye inhabitants of the world, and
dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the
mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
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For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my
dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud
of dew in the heat of harvest.
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For afore the harvest, when the bud is
perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both
cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut
down the branches.
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They shall be left together unto the
fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the
fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall
winter upon them.
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In that time shall the present be
brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people
scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their
beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose
land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
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