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Isaiah 18

1 Of the enemies of the Church. 7 And of the vocation of the Gentiles.
1.Oh, the aland shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2.Sending ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of breeds upon the waters, saying, cGo, ye swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroad, and spoiled, unto a terrible dpeople from their beginning even hitherto: a nation by little and little, even trodden under foot, whose land the efloods have spoiled.
3.All ye the inhabitants of the world and dwellers in the earth, shall see when fhe setteth up a sign in the mountains, and when he bloweth the trump, ye shall hear.
4.For so the Lord said unto me, I will grest and behold in my tabernacle, as hthe heat drying up the rain, and as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5.For afore the harvest when the flower is finished, and the fruit is riping in the flower, then he shall cut down the branches with hooks, and shall take away, and cut off the boughs:
6.They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the ibeasts of the earth: for the fowl shall summer upon it, and every beast of the earth shall winter upon it.
7.At that time shall a kpresent be brought unto the Lord of hostes, (a people that is scattered abroad, & spoiled, & of a terrible people from their beginning hitherto, a nation, by little and little even trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled) to the place of the Name of the Lord of hostes, even the mount Zión.

Notes

1-a.
He means that part of Ethiopia, which lies toward the sea, which was so full of ships that the sails (which he compares to wings) seemed to shadow the sea.
2-b.
Which in those countries were great insomuch as them made ships of them for swiftness.
2-c.
This may be taken that they sent other to comfort the Jews, and to promise them help against their enemies, and so the Lord did threaten to take away their strength that the Jews should not trust therein: or that they did solicit the Egyptians, and promised them aid to go against Judah.
2-d.
To wit, the Jews, who because of God’s plagues made all other nations afraid of the like, as God threatened, Due. 28.37.
2-e.
Meaning the Assyrians, as Ch. 8.7.
3-f.
When the Lord prepares to fight against the Ethiopians.
4-g.
I will stay a while from punishing the wicked.
4-h.
Which two seasons are most profitable for the riping of fruits: whereby he means, that he will seem to favour them, and give them abundance for a time, but he will suddenly cut them off.
6-i.
Not only men shall contemn them, but the brute beasts.
7-k.
Meaning, that God will pity his Church, and receive that little remnant as an offering unto him self.