Isaiah 18

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

唉エテオピアの河の彼方なるさやさやと羽音のきこゆる地

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.

この地蒹のふねを水にうかべ海路より使者をつかはさんとてその使者にいへらく疾走る使よなんぢら河々の流のわかるる國にゆけ丈たかく肌なめらかなる始めより今にいたるまで懼るべく繩もてはかり人を踐にじる民にゆけ

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.

すべて世にをるもの地にすむものよ山のうへに旗のたつとき汝等これを見ラッパの鳴響くときなんぢら之をきけ

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.”

そはヱホバわれに如此いひ給へりいはく空はれわたり日てり收穫の熱むしてつゆけき雲のたるる間われわが居所にしづかに居てながめん

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.

收穫のまへにその芽またく生その花ぶだうとなりて熟せんとするときかれ鎌をもて蔓をかり枝をきり去ん

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.

斯てみな山のたけきとりと地の獸とになげあたへらるべし猛鳥そのうヘにて夏をすごし地のけものその上にて冬をわたらん

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.

そのとき河々の流のわかるる國の丈たかく肌なめらかなる始めより今にいたるまで懼るべく繩もてはかり人をふみにじる民より萬軍のヱホバにささぐる禮物をたづさへて萬軍のヱホバの聖名のところシオンの山にきたるべし