1. Woe to the land of the whirring of wings, which is beyond the
rivers of Cush; 2. that sends ambassadors into the sea, and in boats
of papyrus over the face of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to the
people stretched out and polished, to the terrible people far away on
the other side, to the nation of command upon command and treading
down, whose land rivers cut through. 3. All ye possessors of the
globe and inhabitants of the earth, when a banner rises on the
mountains, look ye: and when they blow the trumpets, hearken! 4. For
thus hath Jehovah spoken to me: I will be still, and I will observe
upon My throne during clear weather in sunshine, during a cloud of
dew in the heat of harvest. 5. For before the harvest, when the
blossom falls off, and the fruit becomes the ripening grape: then
will He cut off the branches with pruning-hooks; and the tendrils He
removes, breaks off. 6. They are left altogether to the birds of prey
on the mountains, and to the cattle of the land; and the birds of
prey summer thereon, and all the cattle of the land will winter
thereon.
7. At that time will there be offered as a homage to Jehovah of hosts
a nation stretched out and polished, and from a terrible people, far
away on the other side; a nation of command upon command and treading
down, whose land rivers cut through, at the place of the name of
Jehovah of hosts, the mountain of Zion.