Jesajas 18
1 Ak vai, zeme, kur spārni žvingst, viņpus Kūsa upēm;
Tragedy is coming to the land of whirring wings that lies along the rivers of Ethiopia,
2 Tā sūta vēstnešus pār jūru un niedru laivās pār ūdeņiem. Ejat, jūs čaklie vēstneši, pie tautas, kas bijājama tālu tālu, pie tautas, kas pavēlētāja un saminēja, kam upes zemi dala.
They send messengers downriver in papyrus boats. Swift messengers, go and take a message to a tall and smooth-skinned people, to a people feared by everyone, to a very powerful nation of conquerors, whose land is washed away by rivers.
3 Visi jūs pasaules iedzīvotāji un jūs ļaudis virs zemes, kad karogs taps izcelts kalnos, tad redziet, un kad trumete skanēs, tad dzirdiet!
All you people of the world, everyone who lives on earth—you will see when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will hear when a trumpet sounds.
4 Jo tā Tas Kungs uz mani sacījis: “Es turēšos klusu un skatīšos no Sava mājokļa, kā karstums spiež saulei spīdot un padebesis raso pļaujama laika karstumā.”
For this is what the Lord has told me: I will watch quietly from where I live, quiet as heat haze in sunlight, quiet as a mistcloud in the heat of harvest.
5 Jo priekš pašas pļaujas, kad ziedi noziedējuši un kad no ziediem ķekari jau ietekās, tad Viņš stīgas nogriezīs ar dārza nazi un zarus atņems un nokapās.
For before the harvest, after the flower is gone and becomes an unripe grape, he prunes the vine with a knife to take out the shoots and branches.
6 Tie visi taps atstāti kalnu ērgļiem un zemes zvēriem, un tie ērgļi tur paliek pa vasaru un visi zemes zvēri tur mīt pa ziemu.
They will all be left as carrion for the birds of prey of the mountains, and for the wild animals. The birds will eat them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.
7 Tanī laikā Tam Kungam Cebaot nesīs dāvanas no tās tautas, kas lielu slaiku augumu, un no tās tautas, kas bijājama tālu tālu, no tās tautas, kas pavēlētāja un saminēja, kam upes zemi dala, uz to vietu, kur Tā Kunga Cebaot vārds, uz Ciānas kalnu.
At that time a gift will be brought to the Lord Almighty from a tall and smooth-skinned people, from a people feared by everyone, from a very powerful nation of conquerors, whose land is washed away by rivers. It will be brought to Mount Zion, the place identified with the Lord Almighty.
