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| 1 Ho, land shadowed [with] wings, That [is] beyond the rivers of Cush, |
Woe – Ho (Young's translation). R3404:3
To the land – By many, supposed to refer to the United States of America. R3404:3
Shadowing with wings – Sheltered by divine providence as an asylum for the liberty lovers and truth lovers of the world. R3404:3, R3405:1
Which is beyond – A fitting description of the location of the United States. R3405:2
Rivers of Ethiopia – Beyond the waters of the ends of the earth. R3405:2
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| 2 That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled. |
Sendeth ambassadors – God's messages of Present Truth. R3405:2
Vessels of bulrushes – Papyrus, paper. R3405:2
Ye swift messengers – God's message going forth in literature, the Millennial Dawn books, tracts, etc. R3405:4
To a nation scattered – "A Holy Nation, a Royal Priesthood." (1 Pet. 2:9) R3405:4
Also the Jewish nation, in stumbling over Christ. R1962:6
And peeled – Polished. R3405:4
A people terrible – In their experiences hitherto. R3405:4
A nation meted out – Whose course and experiences in life the Lord has measured out for them, for their own highest welfare. R3405:4
And trodden down – As a part of their necessary experiences. R3405:4
The rivers – Either of death or as in Psa. 46:4. R3405:5
Have spoiled – Divided. The river of death separates this Holy Nation from its inheritance on the other side of Jordan. R3405:5
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| 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, And ye dwellers of earth, At the lifting up of an ensign on hills ye look, And at the blowing of a trumpet ye hear. |
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| 4 For thus said Jehovah unto me, 'I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. |
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| 5 For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath [one] cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down. |
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| 6 They are left together to the ravenous fowl of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth, And summered on them hath the ravenous fowl, And every beast of the earth wintereth on them.
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| 7 At that time brought is a present to Jehovah of Hosts, A nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the beginning hitherto, A nation meting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled, Unto the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts mount Zion!' |
In that time – The time when the message of the swift messengers goes forth. R3405:5
Shall the present – The Holy Nation, brought as a present to Jehovah. R3405:5
The mount Zion – The heavenly Kingdom. R3405:5
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