CHAPTER 18
which sends
couriers
by sea,
in papyrus
vessels
on
the waters.
Go,
swift
messengers,
to
a people
tall
and smooth-skinned,
to
a people
widely
feared,
to a powerful
nation
of strange speech,
whose land
is divided
by rivers.
All
you people
of the world
and dwellers
of the earth,
when a banner
is raised
on the mountains,
you will see it;
when a trumpet
sounds,
you will hear it.
For
this is what
the LORD
has told
me:
“I will quietly
look on
from My dwelling place,
like shimmering
heat
in
the sunshine,
like a cloud
of dew
in the heat
of harvest.”
For
before
the harvest,
when the blossom
is gone
and the flower
becomes
a ripening
grape,
He will cut off
the shoots
with a pruning knife,
and
remove
and discard
the branches.
They will all
be left
to the mountain
birds of prey,
and to the beasts
of the land.
The birds
will feed on them in summer,
and all
the wild animals
in winter.
At that
time
gifts
will be brought
to the LORD
of Hosts—
from a people
tall
and smooth-skinned,
from a people
widely
feared,
from a powerful
nation
of strange speech,
whose
land
is divided
by rivers—
to
Mount
Zion,
the place
of the Name
of the LORD
of Hosts.