< Isaiah 18 >
1 Woe to the land, the winged cymbal, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
Gorje deželi, zasenčeni s perutmi, ki je onkraj etiopskih rek,
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.
ki pošilja predstavnike po morju, celo v posodah iz ločja na vodah, rekoč: »Pojdite, vi nagli poslanci, k narodu, razkropljenemu in razgaljenemu, k ljudstvu, strašnemu od njihovega začetka do zdaj; narodu razdeljenemu in pomendranemu, katerega deželo so oplenile reke!
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, who dwell on the earth, when the sign shall be lifted up on the mountains, you shall see, and you shall hear the sound of the trumpet.
Vsi vi naseljenci zemeljskega [kroga] in prebivalci na zemlji, glejte, ko dviguje zastavo na gorah in ko zatrobi na šofar, prisluhnite.
4 For thus saith the Lord to me: I will take my rest, and consider in my place, as the noon light is clear, and as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.
Kajti tako mi je rekel Gospod: ›Vzel si bom počitek in preudaril bom v svojem bivališču, kakor sončna vročina na rastlinah in kakor oblak rose v vročini žetve.
5 For before the harvest it was all flourishing, and it shall bud without perfect ripeness, and the sprigs thereof shall be cut off with pruning hooks: and what is left shall be cut away and shaken out.
Kajti pred žetvijo, ko je brst popoln in kislo grozdje dozoreva v cvetu, bo z obdelovalnimi kavlji odrezal tako poganjke, kakor odvzel in odrezal mladike.
6 And they shall be left together to the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be upon them all the summer, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Skupaj bodo prepuščeni perjadi gora in zemeljskim živalim, in perjad bo na njih preživela čas žetve in vse zemeljske živali bodo prezimovale na njih.
7 At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts, from a people rent and torn in pieces: from a terrible people, after which there hath been no other: from a nation expecting, expecting and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion.
V tistem času bo prineseno darilo Gospodu nad bojevniki, od ljudstva, razkropljenega in razgaljenega in od ljudstva, ki je strašno od svojega začetka do sedaj, naroda, ki je razdeljen in pomendran pod stopalom, katerega deželo so oplenile reke, do kraja imena Gospoda nad bojevniki, gore Sion.‹«