New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 There is a land of sailing ships,
a land beyond the rivers of Cush
2 which sends its envoys by the Nile, note
journeying on the waters in vessels of reed.
Go, swift messengers,
go to a people tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people dreaded near and far,
a nation strong and proud,
whose land is scoured by rivers.
3 All you who dwell in the world, inhabitants of earth,
shall see when the signal is hoisted on the mountains
and shall hear when the trumpet sounds.
4 These were the words of the Lord to me:
From my dwelling-place I will look quietly down
when the heat shimmers in the summer sun,
when the dew is heavy at harvest time. note
5 Before the vintage, when the budding is over
and the flower ripens into a berry,
the shoots shall be cut down with knives,
the branches struck off and cleared away.
6 All shall be left to birds of prey on the hills
and to beasts of the earth;
in summer the birds shall make their home there,
in winter every beast of the earth.
7 At that time tribute shall be brought to the Lord of Hosts from note
a people tall and smooth-skinned, dreaded near and far, a nation strong
and proud, whose land is scoured by rivers. They shall bring it to
Mount Zion, the place where men invoke the name of the Lord of
Hosts.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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