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that sends ambassadors by sea,
in papyrus vessels upon the water.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall
    and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide,
    a nation powerful and oppressive,
    whose land the rivers divide.
All you inhabitants of the world,
    and dwellers on earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains,
look!
when a shofar is blown,
listen!
For so Adonai has said to me:
“I will remain quiet, and look from My dwelling place,
like shimmering heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in harvest heat.”

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