Isaiah, Chapter 18

1. Ho! thou land of the buzzing of wings, -- Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:    2. That sendeth by the sea, ambassadors Even in vessels of paper-reed, upon the face of the waters, -- Go ye swift messengers Unto a nation drawn out and polished, Unto a people terrible from their beginning and onwards, -- A nation most mighty and subduing, Whose land rivers have cut through.    3. All ye inhabitants of the world And ye, that dwell in the earth, -- When there is lifted up an ensign on the mountains, Ye shall look, And when there is blown a horn, Ye shall hearken.    4. For, thus, said Yahweh unto me, -- I must be quiet I must look on in my fixed place of abode, -- Like a bright heat on the light, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.    5. For before harvest, when the bud is perfect, And, the blossom, becometh a ripening grape, Then will one cut down the twigs with pruning-hooks, And the tendrils, will he remove [and] cast down:    6. They shall be left together. To the ravenous birds, of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth, -- Then shall the ravenous bird, summer upon them, And, every beast of the earth, upon them, shall winter.    7. In that time, shall there be borne along. As a present unto Yahweh of hosts A people drawn out and polished, Even from a people terrible from their beginning and onwards, -- nation most mighty and subduing Whose land rivers, have cut through, Unto the place of the Name of Yahweh of hosts. Mount Zion.