NOTES for Isa 18:1-7
The prophecy about the nations surrounding Israel continues. Now it speaks about Ethiopia. The prophet Isaiah foresees disaster and famine. They fall upon a people that does not want to know the one God. And yet the result is not the destruction of this people, but its conversion, its bringing of a gift to Mount Zion. In this way God gradually reveals his plan to unite all humanity in Christ, so that the whole fullness of God's grace may be poured out into this world.