Chapter 18

Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

That sendeth⁶ ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go,³ ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered³⁰ and peeled,³⁰ to a people terrible¹² from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!¹

All ye inhabitants⁶ of the world, and dwellers⁶ on the earth, see⁴ ye, when he lifteth up² an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth² a trumpet, hear⁴ ye.

For so the LORD said¹ unto me, I will take my rest,⁴ and I will consider⁵⁵ in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect,² and the sour grape is ripening⁶ in the flower, he shall both cut off¹ the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away⁵² [and] cut down⁵² the branches.

They shall be left¹¹ together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer¹ upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter⁴ upon them.

In that time shall the present be brought⁹³ unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered³⁰ and peeled,³⁰ and from a people terrible¹² from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled,¹ to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.