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Isaiah18

Isaiah 18 pronounces a woe upon a distant land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, known for sending swift messengers. The chapter calls for all the world to observe when the Lord signals His action. God declares He will patiently observe events, likened to natural phenomena, before executing a judgment that cuts off the flourishing, leaving them to scavengers. Ultimately, this same people will bring a present to the Lord of hosts on Mount Zion.

Woe to the Land Beyond Ethiopia

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Oh, the lande shadowing with winges, which is beyond the riuers of Ethiopia,
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Sending ambassadours by the Sea, euen in vessels of reedes vpon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroade, and spoyled, vnto a terrible people from their beginning euen hitherto: a nation by litle and litle, euen troden vnder foote, whose land the floods haue spoyled.

God’s Universal Call to Attention

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Al ye the inhabitants of ye world and dwellers in the earth, shall see when he setteth vp a signe in the mountaines, and when he bloweth the trumpet, ye shall heare.

The LORD’s Quiet, Decisive Action

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For so the Lord saide vnto me, I will rest and beholde in my tabernacle, as the heate drying vp the rayne, and as a cloude of dewe in the heate of haruest.
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For afore the haruest when the floure is finished, and the fruite is riping in the floure, then he shall cut downe the branches with hookes, and shall take away, and cut off the boughes:
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They shall be left together vnto the foules of the mountaines, and to the beastes of the earth: for the foule shall sommer vpon it, and euery beast of the earth shall winter vpon it.

Future Submission and Worship at Zion

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At that time shall a present be brought vnto the Lord of hostes, (a people that is scattered abroade, and spoyled, and of a terrible people from their beginning hitherto, a nation, by litle and litle euen troden vnder foote, whose land the riuers haue spoyled) to the place of the Name of the Lord of hostes, euen the mount Zion.
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