Isaiah 18:5-7
Contemporary English Version
5 Before the blossoms
can turn into grapes,
God will cut off the sprouts
and hack off the branches.
6 Ethiopians will be food
for mountain vultures
during the summer
and for wild animals
during the winter.
7 Those Ethiopians are tall and their skin is smooth. They are feared all over the world, because they are strong and brutal. But at that time they will come from their land divided by rivers, and they will bring gifts to the Lord All-Powerful, who is worshiped on Mount Zion.
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Isaiah 18:5-7
New International Version
5 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)
6 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.
7 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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