Isaiah 18
1 Terrible things will happen to [you people] of Ethiopia! In your land there are many sailboats at the upper part of the Nile River.
Горе земле, осеняющей крыльями по ту сторону рек Ефиопских,
2 Your rulers send ambassadors that sail [quickly] down the river in papyrus boats. You messengers to Ethiopia, go quickly! Go [up the river] to people who are tall and who have smooth skin. People everywhere are afraid of those people, because they conquer and destroy [other nations]; they live in a land that is divided by branches of one large river.
посылающей послов по морю, и в папировых суднах по водам! Идите, быстрые послы, к народу крепкому и бодрому, к народу страшному от начала и доныне, к народу рослому и все попирающему, которого землю разрезывают реки.
3 [You messengers] must tell people everywhere, to people everywhere, “Look when I lift up my battle flag on top of the mountain, and listen when I blow the ram’s horn [to signal that the battle is about to begin].”
Все вы, населяющие вселенную и живущие на земле! смотрите, когда знамя поднимется на горах, и, когда загремит труба, слушайте!
4 [Listen] because Yahweh has told me this: “I will watch quietly from where I live. I will watch as quietly as [SIM] the heat waves shimmer as they rises on a hot summer day, as quietly as the dew forms [on the ground] during harvest time.”
Ибо так Господь сказал мне: Я спокойно смотрю из жилища Моего, как светлая теплота после дождя, как облако росы во время жатвенного зноя.
5 But [even] before the army of Ethiopia starts to attack, while their plans are [slowly forming] like [SIM] grapes that are ripening, Yahweh will [get rid of them like a farmer who] [MET] cuts off the new shoots of the grapevines with his shears, and prunes the branches that have become very long.
Ибо прежде собирания винограда, когда он отцветет, и грозд начнет созревать, Он отрежет ножом ветви и отнимет, и отрубит отрасли.
6 All [the soldiers in the army of Ethiopia] will be killed, and their corpses will lie in the fields for vultures to eat their flesh in the (summer/hot season). Then wild animals will [chew on their bones] all during the (winter/cold season).
И оставят все хищным птицам на горах и зверям полевым; и птицы будут проводить там лето, а все звери полевые будут зимовать там.
7 At that time, the people of that land that is divided by the branches of that one big river will take gifts to Yahweh in Jerusalem. Those tall people who have smooth/dark skin, whom people everywhere are afraid of, because they conquer and destroy many countries, will take gifts to Jerusalem, the city where the Commander of the armies of angels lives.
В то время будет принесен дар Господу Саваофу от народа крепкого и бодрого, от народа страшного от начала и доныне, от народа рослого и все попирающего, которого землю разрезывают реки, - к месту имени Господа Саваофа, на гору Сион.
