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          DASV: Isaiah 18

1 Woe to the land of buzzing wings
     beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2 that sends ambassadors by the sea,
     even in papyrus vessels on the waters.
           Go, you swift messengers,
     to a nation tall and smooth,
           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,
          and you dwellers on the earth,
     when a signal flag is lifted on the mountains, look;
          when the trumpet is blown, listen.
4 For this is what the LORD said to me,
     "I will quietly watch from my dwelling place,
           like heat shimmers in 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 prune off the shoots with pruning shears,
     and cut off and remove the spreading branches.
6 They will be left together for the mountain vultures,
     and for the beasts of the earth;
      the birds of prey will spend summer feeding on them,
     and all the beasts of the earth will spend winter eating them.
7 In that time a present will be brought to the LORD of hosts
     from a people tall and smooth,
           to people feared far and wide,
      a nation strong and conquering,
      whose land is divided by rivers.
      to the place of the name of LORD of hosts,
          to Mount Zion.
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