Isaiah 18:2-4

New International Reader's Version

²Its people send messengers on the Nile River.
They travel over the water in papyrus boats.

Messengers, hurry back home!
    Go back to your people,
    who are tall and have smooth skin.
Everyone is afraid of them.
    They are warriors whose language is different from ours.
    Their land is divided up by rivers.

³Pay attention, all you people of the world!
    Listen, all you who live on earth!
Banners will be lifted up on the mountains.
    And you will see them.
Trumpets will be blown.
    And you will hear them.
⁴The Lord says to me,
    “I will look down from heaven, where I live.
I will be as quiet as summer heat in the sunshine.
    I will be as quiet as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”