Isaiah 18

1 Oh, the lande shadowing with winges, which is beyond the riuers of Ethiopia,

唉！古实河外翅膀刷刷响声之地，

2 Sending ambassadours by the Sea, euen in vessels of reedes vpon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroade, and spoyled, vnto a terrible people from their beginning euen hitherto: a nation by litle and litle, euen troden vnder foote, whose land the floods haue spoyled.

差遣使者在水面上， 坐蒲草船过海。 先知说：你们快行的使者， 要到高大光滑的民那里去。 自从开国以来，那民极其可畏， 是分地界践踏人的； 他们的地有江河分开。

3 Al ye the inhabitants of ye world and dwellers in the earth, shall see when he setteth vp a signe in the mountaines, and when he bloweth the trumpet, ye shall heare.

世上一切的居民和地上所住的人哪， 山上竖立大旗的时候你们要看； 吹角的时候你们要听。

4 For so the Lord saide vnto me, I will rest and beholde in my tabernacle, as the heate drying vp the rayne, and as a cloude of dewe in the heate of haruest.

耶和华对我这样说： 我要安静，在我的居所观看， 如同日光中的清热， 又如露水的云雾在收割的热天。

5 For afore the haruest when the floure is finished, and the fruite is riping in the floure, then he shall cut downe the branches with hookes, and shall take away, and cut off the boughes:

收割之先，花开已谢， 花也成了将熟的葡萄； 他必用镰刀削去嫩枝， 又砍掉蔓延的枝条，

6 They shall be left together vnto the foules of the mountaines, and to the beastes of the earth: for the foule shall sommer vpon it, and euery beast of the earth shall winter vpon it.

都要撇给山间的鸷鸟和地上的野兽。 夏天，鸷鸟要宿在其上； 冬天，野兽都卧在其中。

7 At that time shall a present be brought vnto the Lord of hostes, (a people that is scattered abroade, and spoyled, and of a terrible people from their beginning hitherto, a nation, by litle and litle euen troden vnder foote, whose land the riuers haue spoyled) to the place of the Name of the Lord of hostes, euen the mount Zion.

到那时，这高大光滑的民， 就是从开国以来极其可畏、 分地界践踏人的， 他们的地有江河分开； 他们必将礼物奉给万军之耶和华， 就是奉到锡安山— 耶和华安置他名的地方。