12 Alas, the uproar of many peoples
aWho roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rumble on like the brumbling of mighty waters!
13 The anations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will brebuke them, and they will flee far away,
And be pursued clike chaff in the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a whirlwind.
14 At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning athey are no more.
Such will be the portion of those who pillage us
And the lot of those who plunder us.
A Message to Ethiopia
Alas, O land of whirring wings
Which lies beyond the rivers of aEthiopia,
2 Which sends envoys by the sea,
Even in apapyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation btall and smooth,
To a people cfeared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.
3 aAll you inhabitants of the world and dwellers on earth,
As soon as a standard is raised on the mountains, byou will see it,
And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.
4 For thus Yahweh has told me,
“I will look from My adwelling place quietly
Like dazzling heat in the bsunshine,
Like a cloud of cdew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For abefore the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms
And the flower becomes a ripening grape,
Then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives
And remove and cut away the spreading branches.
6 They will be left together for mountain birds aof prey,
And for the beasts of the earth;
And the birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them,
And all the beasts of the earth will spend harvest time on them.
7 At that time a gift of homage will be brought to Yahweh of hosts
From a apeople tall and smooth,
Even from a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the bplace of the name of Yahweh of hosts, even Mount Zion.