| 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 pruninghooks, 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. | ||