Isaiah 18
1 Woe to the land with spreading wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush,
Ole kwa nchi ya mvumo wa mabawa, kando ya mito ya Kushi,
2 That sendeth on the sea ambassadors, and in vessels of bulrushes messengers over the face of the waters. Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation pulled and torn, to a people terrible from their beginning and onward; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
iwapelekayo wajumbe wake kwa njia ya bahari kwa mashua za mafunjo juu ya maji. Nendeni, wajumbe wepesi, kwa taifa la watu warefu wenye ngozi nyororo, kwa taifa linaloogopwa mbali na karibu, taifa gomvi lenye lugha ngeni, ambalo nchi yao imegawanywa kwa mito.
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, when the ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the cornet is blown, hear ye.
Enyi mataifa yote ya ulimwengu, ninyi mnaoishi duniani wakati bendera itakapoinuliwa milimani, mtaiona, nayo tarumbeta itakapolia, mtaisikia.
4 For so hath said the Lord unto me, I will take my rest, and I will look down on my dwelling-place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
Hili ndilo Bwana aliloniambia: “Nitatulia kimya na kutazama kutoka maskani yangu, kama joto linalometameta katika mwanga wa jua, kama wingu la umande katika joto la wakati wa mavuno.”
5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is past, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, will he both cut off the tendrils with pruning-knives, and the sprigs will he remove and cut down.
Kwa maana, kabla ya mavuno, wakati wa kuchanua ukishapita na maua yakawa zabibu zinazoiva, atayakata machipukizi kwa mundu wa kupogolea matawi, naye atakata na kuyaondoa matawi yaliyopanuka.
6 They shall be left together unto the birds of prey of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Yote yataachwa kwa ajili ya ndege wawindao wa mlimani na wanyama pori, ndege watajilisha juu yake wakati wote wa kiangazi, nao wanyama pori wakati wote wa masika.
7 At that time shall be brought as a present unto the Lord of hosts a people pulled and torn, and a people terrible from their beginning and onward; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.
Wakati huo matoleo yataletwa kwa Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote kutoka kwa taifa la watu warefu wenye ngozi nyororo, kutoka kwa taifa linaloogopwa mbali na karibu, kutoka taifa gomvi lenye lugha ngeni, ambalo nchi yao imegawanywa kwa mito, matoleo yataletwa katika Mlima Sayuni, mahali pa Jina la Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote.
