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、

Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of 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。

Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.

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 peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear.

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 this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

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 time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching 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 for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth 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 an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.