Isaiah 18

1 Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,

1 古实河那边、翅膀刷刷作响之地有祸了！

2 which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

2 那里派出的使节乘芦苇船行驶在水面上。 迅捷的使节啊， 去身材高大、皮肤光滑、 远近畏惧、强悍好战、 境内河流纵横的民族那里吧！

3 All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.

3 天下万民啊，普世的居民啊， 山上竖立旗帜的时候， 你们要看； 号角吹响的时候，你们要听。

4 For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

4 耶和华对我说： “我要从我的居所静静地观看， 无声无息，就像烈日下闪烁的热气， 又如夏收时节露水蒸发的云雾。”

5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.

5 在收割之前， 花已凋谢、葡萄将熟之时， 祂必用刀削去葡萄树的嫩枝， 砍掉蔓延的枝条。

6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.

6 他们必全部被抛给山野间的鸷鸟和走兽， 夏天被鸷鸟啄食， 冬天被走兽吞吃。

7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.

7 那时，这身材高大、皮肤光滑、 远近畏惧、强悍好战、 境内河流纵横的民族， 必带着礼物来到锡安山， 万军之耶和华立名之地。