Isaiah 18

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

那具有翼艇，位於雇士河對岸的地域，

2 that sendest ambassadors over the sea, and in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying, ] Go, swift messengers, to a nation scattered and ravaged, to a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth; to a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

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 ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, see ye, and when a trumpet is blown, hear ye!

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 thus hath Jehovah said unto me: I will take my rest, and I will observe from my dwelling-place like clear heat upon herbs, 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 blossoming is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away [and] cut down 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 shall be left together unto the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

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 In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts of a people scattered and ravaged, — and from a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth, a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled, ...to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.

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。