[1] Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia; [2] that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus
on the waters, [saying], Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and
smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that
measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide! [3] All you
inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is
lifted up on the mountains, see you; and when the trumpet is blown, hear
you. [4] For thus has Yahweh said to me, I will be still, and I will see 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 becomes 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 to the ravenous birds of the mountains, and
to the animals of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer on them,
and all the animals of the earth shall winter on them. [7] In that time
shall a present be brought to Yahweh of Hosts [from] a people tall and
smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation
that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the
place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts, Mount Zion.
