Esias 18

1 Woe to you, you wings of the land of ships, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.

唉！古實河外翅膀刷刷響聲之地，

2 He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.

差遣使者在水面上， 坐蒲草船過海。 先知說：你們快行的使者， 要到高大光滑的民那裏去。 自從開國以來，那民極其可畏， 是分地界踐踏人的； 他們的地有江河分開。

3 Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country; their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet.

世上一切的居民和地上所住的人哪， 山上豎立大旗的時候你們要看； 吹角的時候你們要聽。

4 For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

耶和華對我這樣說： 我要安靜，在我的居所觀看， 如同日光中的清熱， 又如露水的雲霧在收割的熱天。

5 Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning-hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;

收割之先，花開已謝， 花也成了將熟的葡萄； 他必用鐮刀削去嫩枝， 又砍掉蔓延的枝條，

6 And he shall leave [them] together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.

都要撇給山間的鷙鳥和地上的野獸。 夏天，鷙鳥要宿在其上； 冬天，野獸都臥在其中。

7 In that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people afflicted and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and for ever; a nation hoping and [yet] trodden down, which is in a part of a river of his land, to the place where is the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Sion.

到那時，這高大光滑的民， 就是從開國以來極其可畏、 分地界踐踏人的， 他們的地有江河分開； 他們必將禮物奉給萬軍之耶和華， 就是奉到錫安山－ 耶和華安置他名的地方。