New King James Version

Isaiah 18:1-3 New King James Version (NKJV)

1. Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings,Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,

2. Which sends ambassadors by sea,Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,To a people terrible from their beginning onward,A nation powerful and treading down,Whose land the rivers divide.”

3. All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth:When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.