2 which sends ambassadors by sea,
in papyrus vessels on the waters.
“Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation aggressive and conquering,
whose land is divided by rivers.”
3 All you inhabitants of the world,
you who live on the earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains,
you will see it;
when a trumpet is blown,
you will hear it.
4 For this is what the LORD said to me,
“I will quietly look down from My dwelling place,
like clear heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For, before the harvest, when the blossoming is over,
and the blossom becomes a ripening grape,
He will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,
and the spreading branches He will hew down.
6 They will be all left to the birds of prey on the hills,
and to the wild animals of the land;
the birds of prey will summer on them,
and all the animals of the land will winter on them.”
7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts
from a people tall and smooth-skinned,
from a people feared near and far,
a nation aggressive and conquering,
whose land is divided by rivers—
to Mount Zion,
the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.