Isaiah 18:7 - Who are the people being described?

KaieraAi said:

Sorry, I feel like this is a kind of minor question - but who are the people being described, are these the Egyptians? And is this a prophecy that was already fulfilled?

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Would you quote the subject/ topic/ Scripture along with its context please? Thank you.

HI this is a part of scripture that was talking about Ethiopia and was pertaining to events of that day when Ethiopia sent delegations to try to form a confederacy with Israel against Syria. This section of Isaiah does have a lot of future prophecy sandwiched around it as chapter 17 and 19 have a lot of future stuff in them.

KaieraAi said:

Sorry, I feel like this is a kind of minor question - but who are the people being described, are these the Egyptians? And is this a prophecy that was already fulfilled?

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Verse 7
k. Meaning, that God wil pitie his Church, and receive that litle remnant as an offring unto him self.


Geneva Bible: Notes. (1560). (Vol. 1, p. 288). Geneva: Rovland Hall.

KaieraAi said:

"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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Thank you.
Here's another translation just now found online:


Common English Bible



Isaiah 18:7 (CEB) At that time, gifts will be brought to the LORD of heavenly forces from a tall and clean-shaven people and from a people feared near and far, a nation barbaric and oppressive, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of heavenly forces, to Mount Zion.

Isaiah 18:7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts--from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers--to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.

Matthew Henry Commentary
18:1-7 God's care for his people; and the increase of the church. - This chapter is one of the most obscure in Scripture, though more of it probably was understood by those for whose use it was first intended, than by us now.... ... ...