1 Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia:2 Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.3 All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear.4 For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.6 They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter.7 In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.

1 [V terr cymbalo alarum,qu est trans flumina thiopi,2 qui mittit in mare legatos,et in vasis papyri super aquas.Ite, angeli veloces,ad gentem convulsam et dilaceratam ;ad populum terribilem, post quem non est alius ;ad gentem exspectantem et conculcatam,cujus diripuerunt flumina terram ejus.3 Omnes habitatores orbis, qui moramini in terra, cum elevatum fuerit signum in montibus, videbitis,et clangorem tub audietis.4 Quia hc dicit Dominus ad me :Quiescam et considerabo in loco meo,sicut meridiana lux clara est,et sicut nubes roris in die messis.5 Ante messem enim totus effloruit,et immatura perfectio germinabit ;et prcidentur ramusculi ejus falcibus,et qu derelicta fuerint abscindentur et excutientur.6 Et relinquentur simul avibus montiumet bestiis terr ;et state perpetua erunt super eum volucres,et omnes besti terr super illum hiemabunt.7 In tempore illo deferetur munus Domino exercituuma populo divulso et dilacerato,a populo terribili, post quem non fuit alius ;a gente exspectante, exspectante et conculcata,cujus diripuerunt flumina terram ejus ;ad locum nominis Domini exercituum, montem Sion.]