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OEB ISA Chapter 18

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18 Ah, land of the buzzing of wings

beyond the rivers of Cush,

2 that despatches ambassadors over the sea

in vessels of reed on the face of the waters.

‘Depart, you messengers fleet,

to your tall and bronze-skinned people,

whose land is divided by rivers –

your nation strong and victorious,

dreaded both near and far.

3 All you who inhabit the world,

and dwell upon the earth:

when a signal is raised, beware,

and hark, when the trumpet is blown.

4 For thus says the Lord to me,

’From my place I watch untroubled,

still as shimmering heat in sunshine,

or dew-clouds in time of harvest.’

5 For before the harvest, when blossom is over,

and the berry becomes a ripening grape,

he will lop off the branches with pruning-hooks,

he will server the tendrils and cast them away.

6 They will all be left to the beasts of the land,

to the ravenous birds that haunt the mountains;

all summer the ravenous birds will devour them,

all winter the beasts of the land will consume them.’

7 At that time will a gift of homage be brought to the Lord of Hosts from that tall and bronze-skinned people, whose land is divided by rivers – that nation strong and victorious, dreaded near and far – to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of Hosts.

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