Isaiah 18

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

Lòt bò larivyè peyi Letiopi yo, gen yon peyi kote yo tande yon bri tankou bri zèl yon bann krikèt.

2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation strong and conquering, whose land the rivers divide."

Mesaje ap soti nan peyi sa a, y'ap desann larivyè Nil lan nan pipirit fèt ak wozo. Nou menm mesaje yo, mete zèl nan pye nou. Tounen lakay nou. Pote nouvèl la bay moun peyi nou an. Se yon gwo peyi ki fò anpil, ki gen anpil larivyè k'ap koule ladan l'. Al pote nouvèl la bay moun bèl wotè yo, ki gen po yo boule nan solèy. Se yon pèp tout moun pè.

3 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look. When the trumpet is blown, listen.

Nou tout ki rete sou latè, leve je nou gade. Yo pral bay siyal la ak drapo kanpe sou tèt mòn yo. Louvri zòrèy nou, tande. Yo pral sonnen klewon an.

4 For Jehovah said to me, "I will be still, and I will see from my dwelling place, like the clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

Seyè a di m' konsa: M'ap rete rete m' kote m' ye nan syèl la, m'ap gade anba san m' pa fè ankenn bri, tankou solèy la lè l'ap klere gwo midi, tankou lawouze k'ap tonbe nan mitan chalè lannwit nan sezon rekòt.

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

Paske, menm jan anvan rekòt rezen yo, lè yo fin fleri, lè rezen yo pral mi, yo debranche yo ak kouto, yo wete tout ti branch yo, yo ba yo lè, se konsa lènmi yo pral detwi moun peyi Letiopi yo.

6 They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.

Yo pral kite kadav sòlda yo konsa pou zwezo ki manje vyann epi ki rete nan mòn ak pou bèt nan bwa. Nan sezon chalè, zwezo va vin manje yo. Nan sezon fredi, se bèt nan bwa ki va vin manje yo.

7 In that time, a present will be brought to Jehovah of hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, Mount Zion.

Lè sa a, bann moun bèl wotè ki gen po yo boule nan solèy, pèp tout moun pè a, moun ki rete nan gwo peyi ki gen fò anpil la, yo menm ki rete nan peyi ki nan tèt dlo larivyè Nil lan, y'a pote kado bay Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a. Y'a vin jouk sou mòn Siyon an kote moun fè sèvis pou Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a.