1 Ah, the land beyond the rivers of India,⁠a to which they come in ships from a far country, whose sails are spread out like an eagle flying with its wings! 2 It sends ambassadors by the sea, in ships on the face of the waters, saying, “Go, swift messengers, to a people oppressed and plundered, to a people that was mighty in times past and will be so in time to come, a people oppressed and robbed, whose land the nations have plundered.” 3 All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when the standard is lifted up on the mountains, you will see the standard, and when the trumpet sounds, you will hear of redemption. 4 For thus the LORD has said to me, “I will give rest to my people; I will make them rest, and I will delight in my holy habitation to do them good. Blessings and consolations I will bring upon them quickly; when the heat is intense from the heat of the sun, then I will be to them a cloud of dew, as in the heat of harvest.” 5 Before the time of harvest comes, when the tree is ready to bud and the unripe grape bursts into flower, He will slay the rulers of the nations with the sword, and their mighty ones He will remove and cause to pass away. 6 They will all be left to the birds of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth; all the birds of the heavens will summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter upon them. 7 At that time a gift will be brought to the LORD of hosts, a people oppressed and plundered, a people that was mighty in times past and will be so in time to come, a people oppressed and robbed, whose land the nations have plundered, to the place that is called by the name of the LORD of hosts, whose Shekinah is in the mountain of Zion.