[1] Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of
Ethiopia: [2] Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of
papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall
and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong
nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers. [3]
All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a
flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is
sounded, give ear. [4] For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be
quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining,
like a mist of dew in the heat of summer. [5] For before the time of
getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has
become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches
with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches. [6]
They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the
earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of
the earth in the winter. [7] In that time an offering will be made to the
Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all
their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut
through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord
of armies, even Mount Zion.
