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Rh :This is the portion of them that spoil us,
 * And the lot of them that rob us.


 * Ah, land of the buzzing of wings,
 * Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
 * That sendeth ambassadors by the sea,
 * Even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters!
 * Go, ye swift messengers,
 * To a nation tall and of glossy skin,
 * To a people terrible from their beginning onward;
 * A nation that is sturdy and treadeth down,
 * Whose land the rivers divide!
 * All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth,
 * When an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye;
 * And when the horn is blown, hear ye.


 * For thus hath the said unto me:
 * I will hold Me still, and I will look on in My dwelling-place,
 * Like clear heat in sunshine,
 * Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
 * For before the harvest, when the blossom is over,
 * And the bud becometh a ripening grape,
 * He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks,
 * And the shoots will He take away and lop off.
 * They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains,
 * And to the beasts of the earth;
 * And the ravenous birds shall summer upon them,
 * And all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

In that time shall a present be brought unto the of hosts of a people tall and of glossy skin, and from a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the  of hosts, the mount Zion.

The burden of Egypt.


 * Behold, the rideth upon a swift cloud,
 * And cometh unto Egypt;
 * And the idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence,
 * And the heart of Egypt shall melt within it.
 * And I will spur Egypt against Egypt;
 * And they shall fight every one against his brother,
 * And everyone against his neighbour;
 * City against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
 * And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty within it;
 * And I will make void the counsel thereof;
 * And they shall seek unto the idols, and to the whisperers,
 * And to the ghosts, and to the familiar spirits.
 * And I will give over the Egyptians
 * Into the hand of a cruel lord;
 * And a fierce king shall rule over them,
 * Saith the Lord, the of hosts.


 * And the waters shall fail from the sea,
 * And the river shall be drained dry,
 * And the rivers shall become foul;