## Isaiah Chapter 18

###### Isaiah 18:1
[Isaiah 18:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Isaiah/r/18:1)

ה֥וֹי אֶ֖רֶץ צִלְצַ֣ל כְּנָפָ֑יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר מֵעֵ֖בֶר לְנַהֲרֵי־כֽוּשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
O land of buzzing wings, which fly beyond the rivers of Kush:


###### Isaiah 18:2
[Isaiah 18:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Isaiah/r/18:2)

הַשֹּׁלֵ֨חַ בַּיָּ֜ם צִירִ֗ים וּבִכְלֵי־גֹ֘מֶא֮ עַל־פְּנֵי־מַ֒יִם֒ לְכ֣וּ**׀** מַלְאָכִ֣ים קַלִּ֗ים אֶל־גּוֹי֙ מְמֻשָּׁ֣ךְ וּמוֹרָ֔ט אֶל־עַ֥ם נוֹרָ֖א מִן־ה֣וּא וָהָ֑לְאָה גּ֚וֹי קַו־קָ֣ו וּמְבוּסָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־בָּזְא֥וּ נְהָרִ֖ים אַרְצֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
that sendest ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters: Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers have divided!


###### Isaiah 18:3
[Isaiah 18:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Isaiah/r/18:3)

כׇּל־יֹשְׁבֵ֥י תֵבֵ֖ל וְשֹׁ֣כְנֵי אָ֑רֶץ כִּנְשֹׂא־נֵ֤ס הָרִים֙ תִּרְא֔וּ וְכִתְקֹ֥עַ שׁוֹפָ֖ר תִּשְׁמָֽעוּ׃{ס}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see, when he lifts up a banner on the mountains; and when he blows a shofar, hear!


###### Isaiah 18:4
[Isaiah 18:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Isaiah/r/18:4)

כִּי֩ כֹ֨ה אָמַ֤ר יְהֹוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י (אשקוטה) [אֶשְׁקֳטָ֖ה] וְאַבִּ֣יטָה בִמְכוֹנִ֑י כְּחֹ֥ם צַח֙ עֲלֵי־א֔וֹר כְּעָ֥ב טַ֖ל בְּחֹ֥ם קָצִֽיר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For so the Lord said to me, I will take my rest, and I will look on in my dwelling place, like the clear heat in sunlight; and like the cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.


###### Isaiah 18:5
[Isaiah 18:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Isaiah/r/18:5)

כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֤י קָצִיר֙ כְּתׇם־פֶּ֔רַח וּבֹ֥סֶר גֹּמֵ֖ל יִֽהְיֶ֣ה נִצָּ֑הֿ וְכָרַ֤ת הַזַּלְזַלִּים֙ בַּמַּזְמֵר֔וֹת וְאֶת־הַנְּטִישׁ֖וֹת הֵסִ֥יר הֵתַֽז׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For before the harvest, when the blossom is past, and the bud is ripening into young grapes, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.


###### Isaiah 18:6
[Isaiah 18:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Isaiah/r/18:6)

יֵעָזְב֤וּ יַחְדָּו֙ לְעֵ֣יט הָרִ֔ים וּֽלְבֶהֱמַ֖ת הָאָ֑רֶץ וְקָ֤ץ עָלָיו֙ הָעַ֔יִט וְכׇל־בֶּהֱמַ֥ת הָאָ֖רֶץ עָלָ֥יו תֶּחֱרָֽף׃{ס}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They shall be left together to the predatory birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.


###### Isaiah 18:7
[Isaiah 18:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Isaiah/r/18:7)

בָּעֵת֩ הַהִ֨יא יוּבַל־שַׁ֜י לַיהֹוָ֣ה צְבָא֗וֹת עַ֚ם מְמֻשָּׁ֣ךְ וּמוֹרָ֔ט וּמֵעַ֥ם נוֹרָ֖א מִן־ה֣וּא וָהָ֑לְאָה גּ֣וֹי**׀** קַו־קָ֣ו וּמְבוּסָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר בָּזְא֤וּ נְהָרִים֙ אַרְצ֔וֹ אֶל־מְק֛וֹם שֵׁם־יְהֹוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת הַר־צִיּֽוֹן׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
In that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts, by a people tall and smooth, even by a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers have divided, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Żiyyon.