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