イザヤ書 18

1 ああ、エチオピヤの川々のかなたなるぶんぶんと羽音のする国、

Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

2 この国は葦の船を水にうかべ、ナイル川によって使者をつかわす。とく走る使者よ、行け。川々の分れる国の、たけ高く、膚のなめらかな民、遠近に恐れられる民、力強く、戦いに勝つ民へ行け。

that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”

3 すべて世におるもの、地に住むものよ、山の上に旗の立つときは見よ、ラッパの鳴りひびくときは聞け。

All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

4 主はわたしにこう言われた、「晴れわたった日光の熱のように、刈入れの熱むして露の多い雲のように、わたしは静かにわたしのすまいから、ながめよう」。

For the LORD said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

5 刈入れの前、花は過ぎてその花がぶどうとなって熟すとき、彼はかまをもって、つるを刈り、枝を切り去る。

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

6 彼らはみな山の猛禽と、地の獣とに捨て置かれる。猛禽はその上で夏を過ごし、地の獣はみなその上で冬を過ごす。

They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.

7 その時、川々の分れる国のたけ高く、膚のなめらかな民、遠くの者にも近くの者にも恐れられる民、力強く、戦いに勝つ民から万軍の主にささげる贈り物を携えて、万軍の主のみ名のある所、シオンの山に来る。

In that time, a present will be brought to the LORD of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of Armies, Mount Zion.