Isaiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 434
The Books of the Prophets
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Woe! to the country wing—shad0wed, beyond Kush’s riversi Who on the face of the seas sends its letters by Agents, ‘ G0, Messengers, speak to a bold conquering Nation, A terrible Race in its Past and its Future, A disciplined dominant People, despising the streams ofthe earth. ‘ Say to all the Wor1d's races who dwell on its Earth, ‘ When the standard is raised on the Hill, be in fear, And attend when the bugle is blown I For thus the Loma said to myself,*1 will rest, and reflect in My home, Like a bright dew at the rising of light; Like thick cloud in the harvesbtime glare ;··- Then, before Autumn ripens the fruit, And the sour grapes are turned to mature, I will out off the twigspwith a hook And the branches remove with a knife; Leave the heap to the kites of the Hills, And the beasts of the earth as a bed; And the Wild—birds shall summer on them, And in Winter the Beasts make their lair} Then a gift will be brought to the LGRD OF THE HOSTS, From a bold conquering People, A terrible Race from its past and its present, A disciplined dominant People, despising the rivers of earth, To the House of the Name of ]EHOvAH 0F Hosts, On Mount Zion ! ODE 24. Eh: Qurlxzu nf Mitgzr. See the LGRD rides to Mitzer borne on a swift cloud! Mitzer’s godlings before Him will quail, Mitzer's heart in its bosom dissolve! ‘ The Mitz'raim I will rouse on the Mitz’raim; And each shall his own brother light, Each his neighbour, with Town against Town, Each Kingdom against her own State. Then Mitzer’s soul poured from its breast And bereft of its reason will rush to its godlings, And Charmers, and Spirits, and Knowers. But I will give Mitzer hard Lords, And a fierce King shall rule over her,’ Says the Guam: Lomza on Hosrs. ‘ And the waters shall dry from the brooks, And the river be patch-ed up and fail; The streams and their murmur shall ·C€8.S8, The banks of canals be destroyed, And withered the rushes and reeds. The meadows by brooks, and the mouths of the streams, And all sown by the runnels shall wither and faint. And the fishers shall mourn; And all angling the rivers be sad; And the casters of nets on the waters shall faint. The flax carders and weavers despair; All the Factories be ruined, And the operatives troubled in mind l 434
