1. The land of buzzing wings is as good as dead,the one beyond the rivers of Cush,
2. that sends messengers by sea,who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus.Go, you swift messengers,to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people,to a people that are feared far and wide,to a nation strong and victorious,whose land rivers divide.
3. All you who live in the world,who reside on the earth,you will see a signal flag raised on the mountains;you will hear a trumpet being blown.
4. For this is what the Lord has told me:“I will wait and watch from my place,like scorching heat produced by the sunlight,like a cloud of mist in the heat of harvest.”