Dual Panel1There is a land of sailing ships lying beyond the rivers of Cush;
2it sends its envoys by the Nile in vessels of reed on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people dreaded far and near, a nation strong and aggressive, whose land is scoured by rivers.
3All you inhabitants of the world, you dwellers on earth, will see when the standard is hoisted on the mountains and hear when the trumpet sounds.
4These were the words of the LORD to me: From my dwelling-place I shall look on and do nothing when the heat shimmers in the summer sun, when the dew is heavy at harvest time.
5Before the vintage, when the budding is over and the flower ripens into a berry, the shoots will be cut down with pruning-knives, the branches struck off and cleared away.
6All will be left to birds of prey on the hills and to the wild beasts of the earth; in summer those birds will make their home there, in winter those wild beasts.
7At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of Hosts from a people tall and smooth-skinned, dreaded near and far, a nation strong and aggressive, whose land is scoured by rivers. They will bring it to the place where the name of the LORD of Hosts dwells, to Mount Zion.