1. Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of ETHIOPIA;

2. that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!"

3. All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

4. For the LORD said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

5. For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

6. They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.

2. at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet." He did so, walking naked and barefoot.

3. The LORD said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning ETHIOPIA,

4. so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of ETHIOPIA, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

5. They will be dismayed and confounded, because of ETHIOPIA their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

6. The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, 'Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'"

For I am the LORD your God,the Holy One of Israel,your Savior.I have given Egypt as your ransom,ETHIOPIA and Seba in your place.

4. A sword will come on Egypt,and anguish will be in ETHIOPIA,when the slain fall in Egypt.They take away her multitude,and her foundations are broken down.

5. "'"ETHIOPIA, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword."

6. "'The LORD says:"They also who uphold Egypt will fall.The pride of her power will come down.They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh,"says the Lord God.

7. "They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate.Her cities will be among the cities that are wasted.

8. They will know that I am The LORDwhen I have set a fire in Egypt,and all her helpers are destroyed.

9. "'"In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless ETHIOPIAns afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes."

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction.The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.

You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.