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They send messages over the sea in boats that they make from reeds. Their boats sail quickly on the water.

Go now! Take a message quickly.
Go to a country where the people are tall
    and their skin has no hair.
Everyone is afraid of that nation's people.
They are a powerful and strong nation.
        Many rivers cross their land.

All you people who live in the world, listen to this! You will see a battle flag on the mountains. You will hear the sound of a trumpet.

This is what the Lord said to me: ‘I will watch quietly from my place. I will work quietly, like the heat that comes from the sun. I will be as quiet as the mist that comes at harvest time.’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 18:4 Mist is like a cloud near the ground that comes early in the morning.