Woe to the land of whirring wings , - along the rivers of Cush ,
which sends couriers by sea , in papyrus vessels on ... the waters. Go , swift messengers , to a people tall and smooth-skinned , to a people widely ... ... feared , to a powerful nation of strange speech , whose land is divided by rivers.
All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth , when a banner is raised on the mountains , you will see it ; when a ram’s horn sounds , you will hear it.
For this is what the LORD has told me : “ I will quietly look on from My dwelling place , like shimmering heat in the sunshine , like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. ”
For before the harvest , when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape , He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey , and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer ... , and all the wild animals ... in winter -.
At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts — from a people tall and smooth-skinned , from a people widely feared ... , ... from a powerful nation of strange speech , whose land is divided by rivers — to Mount Zion , the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.