>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/isa/18?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#07b12::c07b12) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/isaiah/18.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Isaiah/18.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/isa/18/1/ss1/) | [Isaiah Explained](https://www.isaiahexplained.com/chapter/18) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>Isaiah speaks a prophecy concerning a distant land beyond Ethiopia, addressing its ambassadors and ultimately highlighting God's future plans for His people and their return to Zion. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>God talks about a place far away and tells messengers to go see the people there. He promises that He will bring good things to those people. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>The chapter describes a land beyond Ethiopia that sends messengers to a nation scattered and oppressed. The Lord speaks of raising an ensign and blowing a trumpet to signal His intentions. He will act before the harvest, cutting off what is not needed, and in time, the people will bring gifts to the Lord on Mount Zion, indicating His ultimate sovereignty and the gathering of His people. > >#Gospel/GatheringOfIsrael #Gospel/Prophecy #Gospel/Restoration ###### 1 1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: ###### 2 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! ###### 3 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. ###### 4 4 For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. ###### 5 5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. ###### 6 6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. ###### 7 7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.