Isaiah 18:7

(7) In that time shall the present be brought . . .—Not “of the people,” but a people, as being themselves the present. The prophet foresees, as one result of the defeat of the Assyrian armies, that the nation, which he again describes instead of naming, will offer themselves to the service of Jehovah. So taken the words have an interesting parallel in Psalms 68:31, “Ethiopia stretches out her hands unto God,” or in the mention of Ethiopia in Psalms 87:3, as among the nations whose children are to be enrolled among the citizens of Zion. Messengers who may have justified Isaiah’s words were probably found among the envoys mentioned in 2 Chronicles 32:23. Here, again, the words have been referred as before, to Israel.