Message to Ethiopia
1 Alas, oh land of whirring wings
# Which lies beyond the rivers ofCush,
2 Which sends envoys by the sea,
Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth,
To a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.
3 All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers on earth,
As soon as a standard is raised on the mountains, you will seeit,
And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hearit.
4 For thus the Lordhas told me,
“I will look from My dwelling place quietly
Like dazzling heat in the sunshine,
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For before the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms
And the flower becomes a ripening grape,
Then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives
And removeandcut away the spreading branches.
6 They will be left together for mountain birds of prey,
And for the beasts of the earth;
And the birds of prey will spend the summerfeedingon them,
And all the beasts of the earth will spend harvest time on them.
7 At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the Lordof hosts
From a people tall and smooth,
Even from a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation,
Whose land the rivers divide-
To the place of the name of the Lordof hosts,evenMount Zion.
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