I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place

Isaiah 18:1-7

Woe to the land of whirring wings along the rivers of Cush, which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it.

This is what the Lord says to me: “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

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.

Why?

When seeing a banner is raised and hear a trumpet sounds, which means Assyria conquered Cush. 

Cush heard Assyria was close to them, they sent a messenger to Judah and asked to make a union to defeat Assyria. But the Lord said to them don't rely on any others, only the Lord is their stronghold.

Everything may change, but our God won't change like the sunshine and cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

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古實即衣索匹亞，當時已經統治埃及。古實想要結盟猶大來對抗亞述，好像現在各國想要聯合抵抗其他國家。

高大光滑的民是伸出去延長出去的含義，表示歷史悠久。分地界踐踏人的，權力大，地界多大由他們決定。

以賽亞告訴猶大、全世界神所說的話：日光中的清熱： 熱氣，收割的季節就有雲霧。目前時候未到，時候到了自然有這些天候出現。我們安靜，不代表我們沒有行動，新沒有行動，但是神都在觀看、都在神的掌握中。

時候到了，連古實山亞述國力強大的國家也要去朝見耶和華。新約記載腓利向太監埃提阿伯傳講耶穌是否就是以賽亞書所說的，把基督帶到他們國家。歐洲統治非洲，只有衣索匹亞和賴比瑞亞沒有被殖民統治，因為他們信靠耶和華。

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How?

Fear the Lord for the Lord has love and righteousness, even under God's judgment there is love within it.