1 Woe to the land of whirring wings

along the rivers of Cush,

1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings,

Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

1 Listen, Ethiopia—land of fluttering sails

that lies at the headwaters of the Nile,

1 Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings,

Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,

1 How terrible it will be for the land beyond the rivers of Cush.

It is filled with the sound of wings.

1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

1 Ha! land shadowing with wings, which art beyond the rivers of Cush,

1 How horrible it will be for the land of whirring wings 

which lies beyond the rivers of Sudan. 

1 Ah! The land of buzzing insect wings

beyond the rivers of Cush

1 Ah, land of whirring wings

beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,

1 Ah! land of the whirring of wings,

which is beyond the rivers of Cush,

1 How terrible it will be for the land

whose armies are like large numbers of flying insects!

That land is along the rivers of Cush.

1 Alas, oh land of whirring wings

Which lies beyond the rivers of Cush,