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1Woe, land of buzzing wings[#Isa 20.3–5; Ezek 30.4, 5, 9; Zeph 2.12; 3.10; #18.1 Meaning of Heb uncertain]
beyond the rivers of Cush,
2sending ambassadors by the Nile[#v 7 ; Ex 2.3; 2 Chr 12.2–4]
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.
3All you inhabitants of the world,[#Ps 49.1; Isa 5.26; 26.11]
you who live on the earth,
when a signal is raised on the mountains, look!
When a trumpet is blown, listen!
4For thus the Lord said to me:[#2 Sam 23.4; Isa 26.19, 21]
“I will quietly look from my dwelling
like clear heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over[#Isa 27.11; Ezek 17.6–10]
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks,
and the spreading branches he will hew away.
6They shall all be left[#Isa 46.11; 56.9; Jer 7.33]
to the birds of prey of the mountains
and to the animals of the earth.
And the birds of prey will summer on them,
and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.
7At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.[#Ps 68.31; Isa 45.14; Zeph 3.10; Zech 14.16, 17; #18.7 Q ms Gk Vg: MT of]