<h3>Message to Ethiopia</h3>18 <poetry>Woe, land of whirring wings Which lies beyond the rivers of Cush, </poetry> 2 <poetry>Which sends messengers by the sea, Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, To a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation Whose land the rivers divide. </poetry> 3 <poetry> All you who inhabit the world, and live on earth, As soon as a flag is raised on the mountains, you will see it, And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.</poetry> 4 For this is what the Lord has told me:<poetry>“I will quietly look from My dwelling place Like dazzling heat in the sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” 5 <poetry>For before the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, And remove and tear away the spreading branches. </poetry> 6 <poetry>They will be left together for mountain birds of prey, And for the animals of the earth; And the birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them, And all the animals of the earth will spend harvest time on them. </poetry> 7 <poetry>At that time a gift of tribute will be brought to the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> of armies From a people tall and smooth, From a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation, Whose land the rivers divide— To the place of the name of the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> of armies, to Mount Zion.</poetry>

Isaiah 18:1

Woe, land of whirring wings Which lies beyond the rivers of <ft>1</ft><cr>1</cr>Cush,

Which sends messengers by the sea, Even in <cr>1</cr>papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation <ft>1</ft><cr>2</cr>tall and smooth, To a people <cr>3</cr>feared <ft>2</ft>far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation Whose land the rivers divide.

Isaiah 18:2

<cr>1</cr>All you who inhabit the world, and live on earth, As soon as a flag is raised on the mountains, <cr>2</cr>you will see it, And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.

Isaiah 18:3

For this is what the Lord has told me:<pb/><poetry>“I will quietly look <ft>1</ft>from My <cr>1</cr>dwelling place Like dazzling heat in the <ft>2</ft><cr>2</cr>sunshine, Like a cloud of <cr>3</cr>dew in the heat of harvest.”

Isaiah 18:4

For <cr>1</cr>before the harvest, as soon as the bud <ft>1</ft>blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, And remove and tear away the spreading branches.

Isaiah 18:5

They will be left together for mountain birds <cr>1</cr>of prey, And for the animals of the earth; And the birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them, And all the animals of the earth will spend harvest time on them.

Isaiah 18:6

At that time a gift of tribute will be brought to the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> of armies <ft>1</ft>From a <cr>1</cr>people <ft>2</ft>tall and smooth, From a people feared <ft>3</ft>far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation, Whose land the rivers divide— To the <cr>2</cr>place of the name of the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> of armies, to Mount Zion.

Isaiah 18:7

 1 Woe, land of whirring wings Which lies beyond the rivers of   Cush,  2 Which sends messengers by the sea, Even in  papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation   tall and smooth, To a people  feared  far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation Whose land the rivers divide.  3  All you who inhabit the world, and live on earth, As soon as a flag is raised on the mountains,  you will see it, And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear it. 4 For this is what the Lord has told me: “I will quietly look  from My  dwelling place Like dazzling heat in the   sunshine, Like a cloud of  dew in the heat of harvest.”  5 For  before the harvest, as soon as the bud  blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, And remove and tear away the spreading branches.  6 They will be left together for mountain birds  of prey, And for the animals of the earth; And the birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them, And all the animals of the earth will spend harvest time on them.  7 At that time a gift of tribute will be brought to the Lord of armies  From a  people  tall and smooth, From a people feared  far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation, Whose land the rivers divide— To the  place of the name of the Lord of armies, to Mount Zion.

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