# Isaiah 18

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/18

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Ah, land of whirring wings beyond the rivers of Cush,
2. which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, a nation strong and conquering, whose land is divided by rivers.
3. All you inhabitants of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, look! When a ram’s horn is blown, listen!
4. For this is what Yahweh said to me: I will be quiet and look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5. For before the harvest, when the blossom is over and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks, and cut away and remove the spreading branches.
6. They will all be left to the birds of prey on the mountains and to the wild animals of the earth. The birds of prey will spend the summer on them, and all the wild animals of the earth will spend the winter on them.
7. At that time gifts will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, a nation strong and conquering, whose land is divided by rivers—to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.

## Nearby chapters

[Isaiah 17](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/17.md)
[Isaiah 19](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/19.md)

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