¹Ah , the land of the rustling of wings , which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia ;

²that 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!”

³All you inhabitants of the world , and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains , look ! When the trumpet is blown , listen !

⁴For the LORD 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 .”

⁵For 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 he will cut down and take away the spreading branches .

⁶They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains , and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer , and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter .

⁷In that time , a present will be brought to the LORD of Armies 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 the LORD of Armies , Mount Zion .