WOE to land shadowed with buzzing wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethopia,

2 Which sends ambassadors by sea, even in vessels of reed on the water, saying, "Go , swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward , a nation powerful and treading down, whose land the rivers divide. "

3 All the inhabitants of the world and dwellars on the earth : when he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it ; and when he blows a trumpt, you hear it.

4 For so the LORD said to me, " I will take My rest, and I will look from My dwelling place like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud od dew in the heat of harvest. "

5 For before the harvest , when the bud is perfect and the sour grape is ripening in the flower , he will both cut off the springs with pruning hooks and take away and cut down the branches.

6 They will be left togather for the mountain birds of prey and for the beasts of the earth; the birds of prey will summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

7 In that time a present will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth of skin , and from a people a terrible from their beginning onward, a nation powerful and treading down, whose land the rivers divide - to place of the name of hosts , to Mount Zion. Isaiah 18