| Chapter
18 |
| 1 | Woe to
the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: |
| 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! |
| 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. |
| 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. |
