1 Ah! Land of buzzing insects,beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2 Sending ambassadors by sea,in papyrus boats on the waters!Go, swift messengers,to a nation tall and bronzed,To a people dreaded near and far,a nation strong and conquering,whose land is washed by rivers.
3 All you who inhabit the world,who dwell on earth,When the signal is raised on the mountain, look!When the trumpet blows, listen!
4 For thus says the Lord to me:I will be quiet, looking on from where I dwell,Like the shimmering heat in sunshine,like a cloud of dew at harvest time.
5 Before the vintage, when the flowering has ended,and the blooms are succeeded by ripening grapes,Then comes the cutting of branches with pruning hooks,and the discarding of the lopped-off shoots.
6 They shall all be left to the mountain vulturesand to the beasts of the earth;The vultures shall summer on them,all the beasts of the earth shall winter on them.
7 Then will gifts be brought to the Lord of hosts—to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, Mount Zion—from a people tall and bronzed, from a people dreaded near and far, a nation strong and conquering, whose land is washed by rivers.