18:1 Woe to you, ye wings of the land of
ships, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.
18:2 He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for
swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh
people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.
18:3 Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited
country; their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it
shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet.
18:4 For thus said Yehovah to me, There shall be security in my city, as
the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of
harvest.
18:5 Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed,
and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he
take away the little clusters with pruning-hooks, and shall take away the
small branches, and cut them off;
18:6 And he shall leave [them] together to the birds of the sky, and to the
wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon
them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.
18:7 In that time shall presents be brought to Yehovah of hosts from a
people afflicted and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and for
ever; a nation hoping and [yet] trodden down, which is in a part of a river
of his land, to the place where is the name of Yehovah of hosts, the mount
Zion. |
18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon
the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and
peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted
out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye,
when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a
trumpet, hear ye.
18:4 For so Yehovah said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider
in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew
in the heat of harvest.
18:5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is
ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks,
and take away and cut down the branches.
18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the
beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the
beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto Yehovah of hosts of a
people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers
have spoiled, to the place of the name of Yehovah of hosts, the mount Zion. |