Isaiah:18

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* Ho ! thou land of rustling wings , Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia ! * That sendest thy messengers upon the sea , In reed –boats upon the face of the waters : Go , ye swift messengers , to a nation tall and fair , To a people terrible from the first and onward , To a mighty , victorious people , Whose land is divided by rivers ! * All ye inhabitants of the world , ye that dwell on the earth , When the standard is lifted up on the mountains , behold ! When the trumpet is sounded , hear ! * For thus hath Jehovah said to me : "I will sit still , and look on from my dwelling –place , Like a serene heat when the sun shineth , Like a dewy cloud in the heat of harvest ." * But before the vintage , when the bud is gone , And the blossom is ripening into a swelling grape , He shall cut off the shoots with pruning –hooks , And the branches he shall take away and cut down . * They shall be left together to the ravenous birds of the mountains , And to the wild beasts of the earth . The ravenous birds shall summer upon it , And every wild beast of the earth shall winter upon it . * At that time shall gifts be brought to Jehovah of hosts From a nation tall and fair , From a people terrible from the first and onward , A mighty , victorious people , Whose land is divided by rivers , To the dwelling –place of Jehovah of hosts , to mount Zion .

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