Isaiah 18

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

١ وَيْلٌ لأَرْضِ حَفِيفِ الأَجْنِحَةِ فِي عَبْرِ أَنْهَارِ كُوشَ،

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 awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”

٢ الَّتِي تَبْعَثُ رُسُلاً فِي الْبَحْرِ فِي قَوَارِبِ الْبَرْدِيِّ السَّابِحَةِ فَوْقَ الْمِيَاهِ، امْضُوا أَيُّهَا الرُّسُلُ الْمُسْرِعُونَ إِلَى شَعْبٍ طِوَالِ الْقَامَةِ جُرْدٍ، إِلَى شَعْبٍ بَثَّ الرُّعْبَ فِي الْقَاصِي وَالدَّانِي، إِلَى قَوْمٍ أَقْوِيَاءَ وَقَاهِرِينَ تَشْطُرُ الأَنْهَارُ أَرْضَهُمْ.

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!

٣ يَا جَمِيعَ أَهْلِ الأَرْضِ وَالسَّاكِنِينَ فِيهَا، عِنْدَمَا تَرْتَفِعُ رَايَةٌ عَلَى الْجِبَالِ فَانْظُرُوا، وَعِنْدَمَا يُدَوِّي نَفِيرُ بُوقٍ فَاسْمَعُوا.

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

٤ لأَنَّهُ هَكَذَا قَالَ الرَّبُّ لِي: سَأَمْكُثُ هَادِئاً نَاظِراً مِنْ مَقَرِّ سُكْنَايَ، كَحَرٍّ صَافٍ تَحْتَ أَشِعَّةِ الشَّمْسِ أَوْ كَسَحَابِ الطَّلِّ فِي حَرِّ الْحَصَادِ

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.

٥ لأَنَّهُ قَبْلَ الْحَصَادِ عِنْدَمَا يَتِمُّ تَفَتُّحُ الزَّهْرِ، وَيَتَحَوَّلُ الزَّهْرُ إِلَى عِنَبٍ نَاضِجٍ، فَإِنَّهُ يَقْطَعُ الْفُرُوعَ بِالْمَنَاجِلِ، وَيَنْزَعُ الأَغْصَانَ الْمُمْتَدَّةَ وَيَطْرَحُهَا،

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

٦ وَتُتْرَكُ كُلُّهَا لِجَوَارِحِ الْجِبَالِ وَوُحُوشِ الأَرْضِ، فَتَلْتَهِمُهَا الْجَوَارِحُ فِي الصَّيْفِ، وَتَتَغَذَّى بِها الْوُحُوشُ فِي الشِّتَاءِ».

7 In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies 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 Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.

٧ فِي ذَلِكَ الْوَقْتِ يُقَدِّمُ الشَّعْبُ الطَّوِيلُ الْقَامَةِ الأَجْرَدُ، الَّذِي بَثَّ الرُّعْبَ فِي الْقَاصِي وَالدَّانِي، الأُمَّةُ الْقَوِيَّةُ الْقَاهِرَةُ الَّتِي تَشْطُرُ الأَنْهَارُ أَرْضَهَا، هَدَايَا إِلَى الرَّبِّ الْقَدِيرِ فِي جَبَلِ صِهْيَوْنَ، مَوْضِعِ اسْمِ الرَّبِّ الْقَدِيرِ.