Isaiah 18

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

唉！古實河外翅膀刷刷響聲之地，

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， 坐蒲草船過海。 先知說：你們快行的使者， 要到高大光滑的民那裏去。 自從開國以來，那民極其可畏， 是分地界踐踏人的； 他們的地有江河分開。

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， 山上豎立大旗的時候你們要看； 吹角的時候你們要聽。

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.

耶和華對我這樣說： 我要安靜，在我的居所觀看， 如同日光中的清熱， 又如露水的雲霧在收割的熱天。

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，花開已謝， 花也成了將熟的葡萄； 他必用鐮刀削去嫩枝， 又砍掉蔓延的枝條，

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.

都要撇給山間的鷙鳥和地上的野獸。 夏天，鷙鳥要宿在其上； 冬天，野獸都臥在其中。

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.

到那時，這高大光滑的民， 就是從開國以來極其可畏、 分地界踐踏人的， 他們的地有江河分開； 他們必將禮物奉給萬軍之耶和華， 就是奉到錫安山－ 耶和華安置他名的地方。