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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 Tell your messengers to go quickly!
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\q1 Go 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 rivers divide.
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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 the battle flag is lifted on top of the mountain,
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\q1 and listen when the ram's horn blows
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\q2 to signal that the battle is about to begin."
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\s5
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\v 4 Listen because Yahweh has told me this:
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\q2 "I will watch quietly from where I live.
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\q1 I will watch quietly like the heat that shimmers as it rises on a summer day.
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\q2 I will work effectively like the cloud of mist that settles during the heat of harvest.
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\v 5 Before the harvest, the farmer sees the grapevines making blossoms and the flowers growing into grapes,
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\q2 and he knows that the time is right to cut off the new growth and spreading branches that keep the tree from growing strong.
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\q1 In the same way I know when the time is right to take action against that nation, and I will send an army to attack it.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 6 All the soldiers in that nation's 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 the nation that rivers divide will take gifts to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
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\q1 Those people are tall and have smooth skins; people everywhere are afraid of those people,
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\q2 because they conquer and destroy other nations,
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\q1 will take gifts to Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, lives.
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