Isaiah 18
1 Behold, land shadowed [with] wings, That [is] beyond the rivers of Cush,
Ole kwa nchi ya wezi wa mabawa, iliyoko mbali kupitia mito ya Ethiopia;
2 That is sending ambassadors by sea, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters—Go, swift messengers, To a nation drawn out and peeled, To a people fearful from its beginning and onward, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled.
wanowatuma mabalozi wao kwa kupitia bahari, na vyombo vya majani juu ya maji. Nendeni enyi wajumbe wepesi, kwa watu warefu na laini waishio kwenye nchi, kwa watu wanogopa mbali na karibu, taifa lenye nguvu, wakanyagao watu, ambao mito imegawanya nchi yao.
3 All you inhabitants of the world, And you dwellers of earth, At the lifting up of an ensign on hills you look, And at the blowing of a horn you hear.
Watu wote wakaao duniani nao wakaao katika nchi, pale ishara itakaponyanyuliwa juu ya milima, angalia; na sikilizeni mbiu itakapopulizwa.
4 For thus said YHWH to me: “I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
Yahwe asema hivi, ''nitachunguza kimyakimya kutoka nyumbani kwangu, kama kupika joto kwenye jua, na kama ukungu kwenye joto la mavuno.
5 For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then [One] has cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches He has turned aside, cut down.
Kabla ya mavuno, pale kipindi cha maua kinapoisha, na maua yako tayari kuwa zabibu. Atakata matawi kwa kupogoa ndoano, na atakatiwa chini na kuchukua matawi yaliyotawanyika.
6 They are left together to the ravenous bird of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth, And the ravenous bird has summered on them, And every beast of the earth winters on them.
Wataachwa kwa pamoja maana ndege wa milimani na wanyama wa duniani. Ndege watatua kwao majira ya joto, na wanyama wote watakuwa kwao kipindi cha baridi.''
7 At that time a present is brought to YHWH of Hosts, A nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the beginning until now, A nation meting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled, To the place of the Name of YHWH of Hosts—Mount Zion!”
Kwa mda huo kodi italetwa kwa Yahwe wa majeshi kwa watu warefu na laini, kwa watu wanohofia umbali na ukaribu, taifa imara na kukanyagwa chini, ambayo nchi yao imegawanjwa na mito, Kwa sehemu ya jina la Yahwe wa majeshi, mpaka mlima Sayuni.
