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For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down. They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts from a people [a]tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 18:7 Or, dragged away and peeled

For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
    and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off(A) the shoots with pruning knives,
    and cut down and take away the spreading branches.(B)
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey(C)
    and to the wild animals;(D)
the birds will feed on them all summer,
    the wild animals all winter.

At that time gifts(E) will be brought to the Lord Almighty

from a people tall and smooth-skinned,(F)
    from a people feared(G) far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
    whose land is divided by rivers(H)

the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.(I)

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