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Proclamation Against Ethiopia
1Woe ⚓to the land shadowed with buzzing wings,
Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2Which sends ambassadors by sea,
Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,
To a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide.”
3All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth:
⚓When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;
And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.
4For so the Lord said to me,
“I will take My rest,
And I will look from My dwelling place
Like clear heat in sunshine,
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect
And the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks
And take away and cut down the branches.
6They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey
And for the beasts of the earth;
The birds of prey will summer on them,
And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.
7In that time ⚓a present will be brought to the Lord of hosts
From a people tall and smooth of skin,
And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts,
To Mount Zion.
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Tin-Hungh Oix Dingc E^ti^o^bie Nyei Zuiz
1Yiem wuov ngaanc ziqc E^ti^o^bie nyei ndaaih
maaih ndaatv ndatc ndatc mbui⚓ nyei deic-bung oix zuqc kouv aqv.⚓
2Dongh longc cie-doix yienh miev zoux nzangv
fungx douc fienx mienh gan koiv mingh wuov norm deic-bung.
Meih mbuo siepv haic nyei douc fienx mienh aah! Mingh aqv.
Mingh lorz yietc fingx hlo hlang nyei, ndopv mbiaangc nyei mienh.
Benx yietc fingx dongh yiem go yiem fatv nyei mienh gamh nziex,
se yietc fingx henv nyei mienh, kungx oix duqv hingh hnangv.
Ninh mbuo nyei deic-bung maaih ndaaih bun nqoi.
3Meih mbuo lungh ndiev nyei zuangx mienh,
se yiem ndau-beih nyei mienh aah!
Yiem mbong liepc geh wuov zanc,
meih mbuo oix zuqc mangc.
Haiz biomv jorng nyei qiex mbui, oix zuqc muangx!
4Ziouv hnangv naaiv gorngv mbuox yie,
“Yie oix yiem yie nyei dorngx sekv-sekv nyei mangc,
hnangv lungh nzang nyei nyutc douz,
hnangv siou gaeng-zuangx nyei ziangh hoc
yuoqv nyei hnoi nyei mbiungc-suiv mouc.”
5Weic zuqc maiv gaengh siou nyei ziangh hoc,
nqoi biangh ziec liuz,
biangh yaac benx oix zuoqc nyei a'ngunc biouv,
ninh oix longc njiuv japv nqoi hmei-cunx,
aengx hngaqv guangc louc mingh nyei hmei-nquaah.
6Ninh oix guangc ninh mbuo bun yiem mbong nyei domh jaangv nyanc,
yaac bun lomc nyei hieh zoih nyanc.
Nqaai gorng maaih nyanc ga'naaiv-daic nyei norqc nyanc,
dong-gen maaih hieh zoih daaih betv.
7Taux wuov zanc, maaih mienh oix dorh zingh nyeic daaih bun Nernh Jiex nyei Ziouv.
Se yietc fingx hlo hlang nyei, ndopv mbiaangc nyei mienh.
Benx yietc fingx dongh yiem go yiem fatv nyei mienh gamh nziex.
Se yietc fingx henv nyei mienh, kungx oix duqv hingh hnangv.
Ninh mbuo nyei deic-bung maaih ndaaih bun nqoi.
Ninh mbuo oix dorh zingh nyeic daaih taux ⟨Si^on Mbong,⟩ se liepc Nernh Jiex nyei Ziouv nyei Mengh nyei dorngx.