{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/asv/isaiah/18","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T21:16:47.199Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":18,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":17,"nextChapter":19,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":7},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters,'saying , Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts from a people 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."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 18 (ASV)","markdown":"[Isaiah 18](https://primebible.com/asv/isaiah/18)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/isaiah/18 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}