A Prophecy Against Cush - Woe to the land of whirring wings along the rivers of Cush, which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water. Go,

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.

Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, To a people terrible from their beginning onward, A nation powerful and treading down, Whose land ...

Isaiah 18 Woe to the land of whirring wingsalong the rivers of Cush, which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a ...

Isaiah pauses to reassure the entire world that the Lord is paying attention. He will take action to end the threat of the Assyrian Empire.

Isaiah 18. 1: Woe to the land of whirring wings along the rivers of Cush,; 2: which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water.

הַשֹּׁלֵ֨חַ בַּיָּ֜ם צִירִ֗ים וּבִכְלֵי־גֹ֘מֶא֮ עַל־פְּנֵי־מַ֒יִם֒ לְכ֣וּ ׀ מַלְאָכִ֣ים קַלִּ֗ים אֶל־גּוֹי֙ מְמֻשָּׁ֣ךְ וּמוֹרָ֔ט אֶל־עַ֥ם נוֹרָ֖א מִן־ה֣וּא וָהָ֑לְאָה גּ֚וֹי קַו־קָ֣ו וּמְבוּסָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־בָּזְא֥וּ נְהָרִ֖ים אַרְצֽוֹ׃ Go, swift messengers,

Isaiah announces a day when Ethiopians will come and worship the LORD and bring gifts to Him to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, to Mount Zion.

For thus the Lord said to me: I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and bronzed, To a people dreaded near and far, a nation strong and conquering, whose land is washed by rivers.