< Isaiah 18 >
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
Tsoka kwa anthu a ku Kusi. Kumeneko kumamveka mkokomo wa mapiko a dzombe.
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Dziko limenelo limatumiza akazembe pa mtsinje wa Nailo, mʼmabwato amabango amene amayandama pa madzi, ndikunena kuti, “Pitani, inu amithenga aliwiro, kwa mtundu wa anthu ataliatali a khungu losalala, ndi woopedwa ndi anthu. Akazembe anatumidwa ku dziko la anthu amphamvu ndi logonjetsa anthu ena. Dziko lawo ndi logawikanagawikana ndi mitsinje.”
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
Inu nonse anthu a pa dziko lonse, inu amene mumakhala pa dziko lapansi, pamene mbendera yakwezedwa pa mapiri yangʼanani, ndipo pamene lipenga lilira mumvere.
4 For so Yhwh said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
Pakuti Yehova akunena kwa ine kuti, “Ndili chikhalire ku malo anga kuno, ndidzakhala chete, ndi kumangoyangʼana, monga momwe dzuwa limawalira nthawi yotentha, monganso momwe mame amagwera usiku pa nthawi yotentha yokolola.”
5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
Pakuti, anthu asanayambe kukolola, maluwa atayoyoka ndiponso mphesa zitayamba kupsa, Iye adzadula mphukira ndi mipeni yosadzira, ndipo adzadula ndi kuchotsa nthambi zotambalala.
6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Mitembo ya anthu ankhondo adzasiyira mbalame zamʼmapiri zodya nyama ndiponso zirombo zakuthengo; mbalame zidzadya mitemboyo nthawi yonse ya chilimwe, ndipo zirombo zidzayidya pa nthawi yonse yachisanu.
7 In that time shall the present be brought unto Yhwh of Armies of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of Yhwh of Armies, the mount Zion.
Pa nthawi imeneyo anthu adzabwera ndi mphatso kwa Yehova Wamphamvuzonse, zochokera kwa anthu ataliatali ndi osalala, kuchokera kwa mtundu wa anthu woopedwa ndi anthu apafupi ndi akutali omwe, mtundu wa anthu amphamvu ndi a chiyankhulo chachilendo, anthu amene dziko lawo ndi logawikanagawikana ndi mitsinje. Adzabwera nazo mphatso ku Phiri la Ziyoni, ku malo a Dzina la Yehova Wamphamvuzonse.