Yesaia 18

1 Due asase a ntaban nnyigyei wɔ so wɔ Kus nsubɔnten ho,

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

2 ɔsoma ananmusifo a wɔnam po so wɔde paparɔso akorow fa nsu ani. Monkɔ, asomafo ahoɔharefo, monkɔ nnipa a wɔwoware na wɔn honam yɛ trontrom, nnipa a wɔn ho yɛ hu wɔ mmaa nyinaa, anuɔdenfo man a yɛnte wɔn kasa, na nsubɔnten akyekyɛ nʼasase mu no nkyɛn.

that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!

3 Mo wiasefo nyinaa, mo a motete asase so, sɛ wɔma frankaa so wɔ bepɔw no so a, mubehu sɛ wɔhyɛn torobɛnto a, mobɛte.

All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye.

4 Sɛɛ na Awurade ka kyerɛ me, “Mɛtena mʼatenae, na mahwɛ biribiara dinn. Mɛyɛ dinn te sɛ owia a ɛrebɔ, te sɛ bɔ a esi wɔ otwabere mu.”

For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

5 Ennya nnuu twabere, a nhwiren bere atwam no na nhwiren no anyin adan bobe no, wɔde asosɔw betwitwa mman no, wobetwitwa mman a ɛredennan no akɔ.

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

6 Wobegyaw wɔn nyinaa ama bepɔw so nnomaa a wokum mmoa we ne wuram mmoa; nnomaa no bedi wɔn nam wɔ ahuhuru bere mu. Wuram mmoa bɛwe wɔn nam wɔ awɔw bere mu.

They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

7 Saa bere no, wɔde akyɛde bɛbrɛ Asafo Awurade ebefi nnipa a wɔwoware na wɔn honam yɛ trontrom hɔ, nnipa a wɔn ho yɛ hu wɔ mmaa nyinaa, aniɔdenfo man a yɛnte wɔn kasa, na nsubɔnten akyekyɛ nʼasase mu, wɔde akyɛde bɛba Sion Bepɔw so, faako a Asafo Awurade din atim no.

In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.