Isaiah 18:7

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7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD Almighty.

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Isaiah 18:7 in Other Translations

KJV

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.

ESV

7 At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide,to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.

NLT

7 At that time the LORD of Heaven’s Armies will receive gifts from this land divided by rivers, from this tall, smooth-skinned people, who are feared far and wide for their conquests and destruction. They will bring the gifts to Jerusalem, where the LORD of Heaven’s Armies dwells.

MSG

7 Then tribute will be brought to God-of-the-Angel-Armies, brought from this people tall and handsome, This people once held in respect everywhere, this people once mighty and merciless, From the land crisscrossed with rivers, to Mount Zion, God's place.

CSB

7 At that time a gift will be brought to the Lord of Hosts from a people tall and smooth-skinned, a people feared near and far, a powerful nation with a strange language, whose land is divided by rivers-to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of Hosts.

Isaiah 18:7 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 18:7

In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord
of hosts
Not exactly at the time when this destruction should be, but some time after, even in Gospel times; for to them this part of the prophecy refers: of a people scattered and peeled;
this explains what the present is, that shall be brought to the Lord; it is a people, and therefore not the spoils of Sennacherib's army, as some interpret it; nor yet the people of the Jews, that shall be brought by the Gentiles out of all nations in the latter day, as an offering to the Lord, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi; see ( Isaiah 11:11 ) ( 66:20 ) ^F16; but the Ethiopians or Egyptians, described ( Isaiah 18:2 ) as here, who, being converted, shall stretch out their hands to God, submit unto him, and present themselves soul and body as an acceptable sacrifice unto him; when these prophecies in ( Psalms 68:31 ) ( Zephaniah 3:9 Zephaniah 3:10 ) shall be fulfilled, and which began to be in the conversion of the Ethiopian eunuch, ( Acts 8:27 ) and of which there were other instances in the times of the apostles, and in following ages: and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto;
that is, some of the people, not all of them; the same people are designed as before, only this Hebraism is used, to show a distinction among them: a nation meted out, and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers
have spoiled;
these descriptive characters, with those in the preceding clauses, are retained, to show that the same people are here meant as in ( Isaiah 18:2 ) and to magnify the riches of God's grace, in the conversion of a people to whom such characters belonged; which show that it was not owing to themselves, or any deserts of theirs, but to the free favour and good will of God: to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion;
hither the present was to be brought, and here the persons to present themselves to the Lord, even in the mount Zion, the church of God; where the name of the Lord is named and called upon, his word is preached, his ordinances are administered, and where he dwells, and grants his presence.

FOOTNOTES:

F16 So Manasseh ben Israel, Spes. Israelis, sect. 17. p. 57.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Isaiah 18:7 In-Context

5 For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.

6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey and to the wild animals; the birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all winter.