Aizaia 18

1 Kusi timofo kantu kazigama zamageko'nama hunte'nea ne'onse zagaramimo'zama hare'za vanoma nehaza mopafima me'nea kumataminkura nasunku huramantoe.

Terrible things will happen to [you people] of Ethiopia! In your land there are many sailboats at the upper part of the Nile River.

2 Hagi Isipi vahe'mo'za barozanteti ventea tro hute'za, Naeli timpi zamatrage'za nanekema eri'za vu vahe'mo'za kea eri'za neaze. Hanki neazage'za amanage hu'za huzmante'naze, zaza hu'za zamavufagamo'ma hentofaza hige'za, mopa'zamifina ranra timo'ma tusiza higeno, ana mopafima nemaniza vahe'mo'zama, vahe'ma zamazeri haviza nehazageno maka mopafi vahe'mo'zama tusi koro hunezmantaza vahetega, ame huta viho hu'za huzmante'naze.

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.

3 Hagi maka kokankoka mopafima nemaniza vahe'motane, maka zamotanena tamagesa antetma antahiho, agonafima mago avame'zama efore'ma hanigetma kesnagura tamavua keso'e nehutma, ufema resnagura tamagesa anteta manineta antahiho.

[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].”

4 Na'ankure Ra Anumzamo'a amanage huno nasami'ne, Nagra nemanua kuma'nire mani'ne'na akohe'na, feru zagemo akoheno renteaza hu'na zamagegahue. Ana nehu'na ata ko'mo ne'za vasage knazupa hozafi ko runteaza hu'na, akohe'na maninena zmagegahue hu'ne.

[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.”

5 Na'ankure ana kumamo'a, waini zafamo knare huno marerino amosre ahenteteno, raga rentegeno raga'amo afurenaku hiaza nehie. Hianagi waini ragamo afu orenefi vahe'mo, azanku'nama nekafria kazinteti azankunatamin'a roneseno ranra azankunatamina kitagi atregahie.

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.

6 Itiopia vahera ha' eme huzmante'za sondia vahe'zamia zamahe hana hanage'za fri'za mopafina me'nenage'za, fri'naza zamavufaga tumpamo'za zagegnafina eme ne'nenage'za, zasi knafina afi zagaramimo'za eme negahaze.

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).

7 Ana knafina Monafi sondia vahe'mofo Anumzantega musezana eri'za esazana, Itiopia vahera zaza hu'za, zamavufagamo'ma hentofaza hige'za, ranra timo'ma tusiza higeno, ana mopafima nemaniza vahe'ma zamazeri haviza nehazageno, maka mopafi vahe'mo'za tusi koro hunezmantaza vaheki'za Hankavenentake Ra Anumzamofo agima erisgama nehaza mono nonte, Saioni agonare muse zazamia eri'za egahaze.

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.