¹Woe to the land of whirring wings

beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

²they send ambassadors by sea,

across the water in papyrus-reed boats!

Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and bronzed,

to a people feared far and near,

to a strong and conquering nation

whose land is divided by rivers!

³All you inhabitants of the world,

you who live on the earth:

when a banner is hoisted on the mountains, look!

When the shofar is blown, listen!

⁴For Adonai has said this to me:

“I will look on from my place and do nothing,

like heat shimmering in the sun,

like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

⁵For before the harvest, when the flowering is over,

and the bud becomes a ripening grape,

he will cut off the branches with pruning-knives,

lop off the twigs and take them away.

⁶They will all be left to the vultures in the mountains

and to the wild animals in the fields;

the vultures will feed on them in summer,

and the wild animals of the fields in winter.

⁷At that time tribute will be brought

to Adonai -Tzva’ot

from a nation tall and bronzed,

from a people feared far and near,

from a strong and conquering nation

whose land is divided by rivers,

to the place where the name of Adonai -Tzva’ot

lives, Mount Tziyon.