旧约 - 以赛亚书(Isaiah)第18章

Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
以赛亚书第十八章   赛 18 章 > 面对强敌犹大为何不与邻国结盟? 

  18 章 这个预言大约是在希西家时代发出的(参王下 19 ; 20 )。“翅膀刷刷响”指的是蝉,大概是在描述古实的军队。古实王听说亚述庞大的军队从南边向他们逼近,就派信使到尼罗河周围国家谈结盟。信使也到了犹大,但以赛亚让信使回去了,因为犹大只需神的帮助去抵抗亚述。以赛亚预言说,亚述要在适当的时候被毁灭( 37:21-38 )。 

  赛 18:3> “竖立大旗”“吹角”是── 

  18:3 这是古实噩运来临和亚述将战胜古实的信号( 20:1-6 )。──《灵修版圣经注释》