They will all be left for the birds of prey on the hills
and for the wild animals of the land.
The birds will spend the summer on them,
and all the animals, the winter on them.

At that time a gift will be brought to Yahweh of Hosts from[a] a people tall and smooth-skinned,(A) a people feared far and near, a powerful nation with a strange language, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 18:7 DSS, LXX, Vg; MT omits from

They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey(A)
    and to the wild animals;(B)
the birds will feed on them all summer,
    the wild animals all winter.

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

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

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

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