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Chapter 18 |
| 1 | Woe to the
land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: |
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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! |
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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. |
| 4 | For so the
LORD 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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7 | In that time shall the present be brought unto the
LORD 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 the LORD of hosts, the
mount Zion. |
