32 lines
1.3 KiB
Markdown
32 lines
1.3 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 18
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1 Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings,
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Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
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2 Which sends ambassadors by sea,
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Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,
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“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,
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To a people terrible from their beginning onward,
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A nation powerful and treading down,
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Whose land the rivers divide.”
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3 All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth:
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When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;
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And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.
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4 For so the Lord said to me,
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“I will take My rest,
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And I will look from My dwelling place
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Like clear heat in sunshine,
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Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
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5 For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect
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And the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
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He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks
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And take away and cut down the branches.
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6 They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey
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And for the beasts of the earth;
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The birds of prey will summer on them,
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And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.
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7 In that time a present will be brought to the Lord of hosts
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From a people tall and smooth of skin,
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And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,
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A nation powerful and treading down,
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Whose land the rivers divide—
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To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts,
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To Mount Zion. |