Isaiah 18

1 Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,

那具有翼艇，位於雇士河對岸的地域，

2 which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

即由海上遣發使者，在海面上乘蘆舟的：「去罷！輕快的使者！到一個高瘦膚褐的民族那裏去，到一個一向可畏的國家那裏去，到一個強大而好勝，河流橫貫其地的民族那裏去！」

3 All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.

舉世的居民和住在大地上的人哪！當山上的旗幟一舉，你們要觀望；號聲一響，你們要靜聽！

4 For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

因為上主曾對我這樣說：「我要在我的住處寧靜地觀察，彷彿日光中溫暖的熱氣，彷彿收割時炎熱中的露雲。」

5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.

因為在收割前，花苞已放；花蒂成熟結為葡萄時，他就要用鐮刀砍去嫩枝，將參差的枝蔓斬除。

6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.

這些枝蔓都要一律被棄捨給山中的猛禽，和地上的野獸；猛禽要在其上過夏，野獸要在其上過冬。

7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts— from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.

到那時，那高瘦膚褐的民族，那一向可畏的國家，那強大而好勝，河流橫貫其地的民族，要帶禮品到熙雍山上，萬軍上主的名號的居所，獻給萬軍的上主。