Isaiah Chapter 18

Destruction of the Ethiopians through God’s care of his people


18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
18:2 That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of reeds on the waters, [saying], Go, ya’ll swift messengersמַלְאָכִים
Transliteration: mal’āḵim angels, messengers, agents or representatives. For more info click here
, 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!
18:3 All ya’ll inhabitants of the world, and living on the earth, y’all see, when he lifts up a banner on the mountains; and when he blows a trumpet, y’all hear .
18:4 Because YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
said to me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat on herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5 For before 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.
18:6 They shall be left together to the birds of the mountains, and to the animals of the earth: and the birds shall summer on them, and all the animals of the earth shall winter on them.

Growth of Judaism


18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning yet; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
of hosts, the mount Zion.

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