Isaiah 18

1 Ah, land of the buzzing of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

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 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!

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 ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the horn is blown, hear ye.

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 thus hath the LORD said unto me: I will hold Me still, and I will look on in My dwelling-place, like clear heat in 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 over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off.

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 shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

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 In that time shall a present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people tall and of glossy skin, and from a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

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