THE BOOKE OF THE Prophet Isaiah. Chapter 18

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CHAP. XVIII.

1 God in care of his people will destroy the Ethiopians. 7 An accesse thereby shall grow vnto the Church.

¹Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the riuers of Ethiopia:

²That sendeth ambassadours by the sea, euen in vessels of bulrushes vpon the waters, saying; Goe yee swift messengers to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto, a nation meted out and troden downe; whose land the riuers haue spoiled.²

³All yee inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see yee, when hee lifteth vp an ensigne on the mountaines; and when he bloweth a trumpet, heare yee.

⁴For so the Lord sayd vnto me: I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a cleare heate vpon herbes, and like a cloud of dew in the heate of haruest.⁴

⁵For afore the haruest when the bud is perfect, and the sowre grape is ripening in the flowre; hee shall both cut off the sprigges with pruning hookes, and take away and cut downe the branches.

⁶They shalbe left together vnto the foules of the mountaines, and to the beasts of the earth: and the foules shall summer vpon them, and all the beastes of the earth shall winter vpon them.

⁷¶ In that time shall the present be brought vnto the Lord of hostes, of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and troden vnder foote, whose land the riuers haue spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hostes, the mount Zion.⁷

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Isaiah Chapter 18

² Or, outspread and polished. , Or, a nation that meteth out, and treadeth downe. Heb. a nation of line line, and treading vnderfoote. , Or, whose land the riuers despise.
⁴ Or, regard my set dwelling. , Or, after raine.
⁷ Or, outspread and polished. &c.

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