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.
¡Ay de la tierra del zumbido de alas que está a la otra parte de los ríos de Etiopía;
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.
que envía embajadores por el mar y en barcos de papiro sobre las aguas! “Volved, veloces mensajeros, al pueblo de alta estatura y bruñida piel, al pueblo temible desde su principio y sin cesar, a la nación vigorosa e imperiosa, cuya tierra surcan los ríos.”
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].”
Moradores todos del orbe, y habitantes de la tierra, cuando se alce la bandera sobre los montes, mirad, y cuando se toque la trompeta, escuchad.
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.”
Porque así me ha dicho Yahvé: “Me quedaré tranquilo, y miraré desde mi morada, como el calor sereno de la plena luz (del sol), como una nube de rocío en el ardor de la siega.”
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.
Pues antes de la siega, cuando haya caído la flor, y los restos de la flor se estén convirtiendo en uva madura, corta Él las vides con la podadera, quita las ramas y las arranca.
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).
Serán dejadas juntas a merced de las aves rapaces de los montes, y de las bestias de la tierra. Las aves de rapiña pasarán sobre ellos el verano, y todas las bestias del campo el invierno.
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.
En aquel tiempo será traída una ofrenda a Yahvé de los ejércitos, de parte de un pueblo de alta estatura y bruñida piel, de un pueblo temible desde su principio y sin cesar, de una nación vigorosa e imperiosa, cuya tierra surcan los ríos, al lugar del Nombre de Yahvé de los ejércitos, al monte Sión.
