Isaiah 18:1
Woe to the land of whirring wings,
What it says
Woe is pronounced on the land beyond the rivers of Cush, marked by whirring wings.
What it is doing
This verse opens the oracle by identifying its distant addressee.
In context
1Woe to the land of whirring wings, 2which sends couriers by sea, 3All you people of the world 4For this is what the LORD has told me: 5For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone 6They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, 7At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—