1  WOE [ Hail or greetings, and exciting term. ] to the land shadowing with wings, [ America - as testified by Hyrum Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith and Spencer W Kimball. So in essence Isaiah is saying here: "Greetings to the land of America." ] which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: [ So we have Isaiah writing from the land of Jerusalem and he is talking about the waters of Ethiopia which is hundreds of miles away; so he is saying in essence that this land that he is sending greetings to is far far past the lands of Ethiopia. ]

2 That sendeth ambassadors [ The missionaries are the personal ambassadors of Jesus Christ. ] by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, < [ Like canoes that can move swiftly on the water, they are agile. ] saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible [ Difficult to work with. ] from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers [ The rivers of corruption. So in essence this verse is saying that the Lord will send his missionaries to those in the world who like Jerusalem have lost their way, they have adopted the polluted teachings of the world, as a result they have been scattered, and the missionaries will be the mechanism that will call them to come home. ] have spoiled!

3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign [ The word from which ensign was translated here is nês. Nês is translated multiple ways in the KJV. In Isaiah alone it’s translated 3 different ways as: ensign, banner, and standard. Verses from Isaiah that translate the word "nez" (Isaiah 5:26; 11:10,12; 13:2; 18:3; 30:17; 31:9; 49:22; and 62:10). ] on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

5 For afore the harvest, [ "Before the fruit harvest—indicating the time of year—the enemy invades the land and despoils the orchards, leaving little that sustains life. While the land’s desolation by aliens and its overrunning by wildlife represent covenant curses, the birds of prey and beasts of the land additionally signify infestation by bands of marauders who seek subsistence wherever they can find it: “The whole land shall revert to wilderness” (Isaiah 7:24); “Hawks and falcons shall possess it, and owls and ravens inhabit it” (Isaiah 34:11); “All you wild beasts, you animals of the forest, come and devour!” (Isaiah 56:9)." ] when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

7 ¶ In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.