“1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers
of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a
nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers
have spoiled! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the
earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when
he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will
take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat
upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 5 For
afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is
ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning
hooks, and take away [and] cut down the branches. 6 They shall be left
together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the
earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the
earth shall winter upon them. 7 In that time shall the present be
brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and
from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out
and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place
of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.” (Isaiah 18:1-7 AV)