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\c 18
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\q1
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\v 1 Terrible things will happen to you people of Ethiopia!
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\q2 In your land there are many boats at the upper part of the Nile River.
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\q1
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\v 2 Your rulers send ambassadors that sail quickly down the river in papyrus boats.
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\q1 You messengers to Ethiopia, go quickly!
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\q1 Go up the river to people who are tall and who have smooth skins.
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\q2 People everywhere are afraid of those people,
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\q1 because they conquer and destroy other nations;
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\q2 they are people who live in a land that is divided by the branches of a large river.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 You messengers must tell to the people of the world,
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\q2 to all people everywhere,
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\q1 "Look when I lift up my battle flag on top of the mountain,
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\q1 and listen when I blow the ram's horn
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\q2 to signal that the battle is about to begin."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 4 Listen because Yahweh has told me this:
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\q1 "I will watch quietly from where I live.
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\q2 I will watch as quietly as the heat that shimmers as it rises on days during the summer, as quietly as the dew forms on the ground during harvest time."
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\q1
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\v 5 But even before the army of Ethiopia starts to attack,
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\q2 while their plans are slowly forming like grapes that are ripening,
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\q1 Yahweh will get rid of them like a farmer who cuts off the new shoots of the grapevines with his shears,
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\q2 who prunes the branches that have become very long.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 6 All the soldiers in the Ethiopian army will be killed,
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\q2 and their corpses will lie in the fields for vultures to eat their flesh in the summer.
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\q1 Then wild animals will chew on their bones all during the winter.
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\p
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\v 7 At that time, the people of that land that is divided by the branches of one big river will take gifts to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
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\q1 Those tall people who have smooth skins, whom people everywhere are afraid of,
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\q2 because they conquer and destroy many countries,
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\q1 will take gifts to Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, lives.
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