Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,^(C)
    to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive^(D) nation of strange speech,
    whose land is divided by rivers.^(E)

³ All you people of the world,^(F)
    you who live on the earth,
when a banner^(G) is raised on the mountains,
    you will see it,
and when a trumpet^(H) sounds,
    you will hear it.
⁴ This is what the Lord says to me:
    “I will remain quiet^(I) and will look on from my dwelling place,^(J)
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,^(K)
    like a cloud of dew^(L) in the heat of harvest.”