Isaías 18
1 ¡Ay de la tierra que hace sombra con las alas, que está tras los ríos de Etiopía!
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 El que envía mensajeros por la mar, y en navíos de junco sobre las aguas: Andád ligeros mensajeros a la nación arrastrada, y repelada: al pueblo temeroso desde su principio, y después: nación harta de esperar, y hollada, cuya tierra destruyeron los ríos,
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 Todos los moradores del mundo, y los vecinos de la tierra, cuando levantare bandera en los montes verla heis; y cuando tocare trompeta, oírla heis.
[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 Porque Jehová me dijo así: Reposarme he, y miraré desde mi morada: como sol claro después de la lluvia, y como nube cargada de rocío en el calor de la segada.
[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 Porque antes de la siega, cuando el fruto fuere perfecto, y pasada la flor, los frutos fueren maduros, entonces podará con podaderas los ramitos, y cortará, y quitará las ramas.
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 Y serán dejados todos a las aves de los montes, y a las bestias de la tierra: sobre ellos tendrán el verano las aves, e invernarán todas las bestias de la tierra.
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 En aquel tiempo será traído presente a Jehová de los ejércitos, el pueblo arrastrado, y repelado, el pueblo temeroso desde su principio, y después, gente harta de esperar, y hollada, cuya tierra destruyeron los ríos, al lugar del nombre de Jehová de los ejércitos, al monte de Sión.
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.
