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¹ How terrible it will be for the land beyond the rivers of Cush.
    It is filled with the sound of wings.
² That land sends messengers across the sea;
    they go on the water in boats made of reeds.

Go, quick messengers,
    to a people who are tall and smooth-skinned,
    who are feared everywhere.
They are a powerful nation that defeats other nations.
    Their land is divided by rivers.

³ All you people of the world, look!
    Everyone who lives in the world, look!
You will see a banner raised on a mountain.
    You will hear a trumpet sound.
⁴ The Lord said to me,
    "I will quietly watch from where I live,
like heat in the sunshine,
    like the dew in the heat of harvest time."
⁵ The time will come, after the flowers have bloomed and before the harvest,
    when new grapes will be budding and growing.
The enemy will cut the plants with knives;
    he will cut down the vines and take them away.
⁶ They will be left for the birds of the mountains
    and for the wild animals.
Birds will feed on them all summer,
    and wild animals will eat them that winter."

⁷ At that time a gift will be brought to the Lord All-Powerful
    from the people who are tall and smooth-skinned,
    who are feared everywhere.
They are a powerful nation that defeats other nations.
    Their land is divided by rivers.
These gifts will be brought to the place of the Lord All-Powerful,
    to Mount Zion.