| 1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers
of Ethiopia; 2 that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation
tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation
that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide! 3 All ye
inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is
lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye.
4 For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold
in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the
heat of harvest. 5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and
the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with
pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut
down. 6 They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the
mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall
summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts
from a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their
beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the
rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount
Zion.
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