Isaiah, Chapter 18

1. Woe to the land shadowed with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:    2. That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation scattered and smooth, to a people feared from their beginning until now; a nation measured out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have carried away!    3. All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see, when he lifts up a banner on the mountains; and when he blows a trumpet, hear.    4. For so the LORD said to me, I will take my rest, and I will observe from my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.    5. For before the harvest, when the bud is mature, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the twigs with pruning knives, and take away and cut down the branches.    6. They shall be left together for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: and the birds shall spend the summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall spend the winter upon them.    7. In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and smooth, and from a people feared from their beginning until now; a nation measured out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have carried away, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.