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Profecía sobre Etiopía

18 ¡Ay de la tierra del zumbido de alas
Que está más allá de los ríos de Cus[a](A),
La que envía por el mar embajadores
En naves de junco[b] sobre la superficie de las aguas(B)!
Id, veloces mensajeros, a una nación
De alta estatura[c] y de piel brillante,
A un pueblo temido por todas partes[d],
Una nación poderosa y opresora
Cuya tierra surcan los ríos(C).
Todos ustedes, habitantes del mundo y moradores de la tierra(D),
Tan pronto como se alce la bandera sobre los montes, la verán(E),
Y tan pronto como la trompeta sea tocada, la oirán.
Porque así me ha dicho el Señor:
«Me estaré quieto y miraré desde[e] Mi morada(F),
Como calor resplandeciente al sol[f](G),
Como nube de rocío en el calor de la cosecha(H)».
Pues antes de la cosecha, tan pronto como el botón se abra[g]
Y la flor se convierta en uva madura,
Él cortará los pámpanos con podaderas
Y podará y quitará los sarmientos(I).
Juntos serán dejados para las aves de rapiña de los montes,
Y para las bestias de la tierra.
Pasarán allí el verano las aves de rapiña,
Y todas las bestias de la tierra allí invernarán[h](J).
En aquel tiempo será traído un obsequio al Señor de los ejércitos
De parte[i] de un pueblo de alta estatura[j] y de piel brillante(K),
De un pueblo temido por todas partes[k],
De una nación poderosa y opresora,
Cuya tierra surcan los ríos,
Al lugar del nombre del Señor de los ejércitos(L), el monte Sión.

Footnotes

  1. 18:1 O Etiopía.
  2. 18:2 O papiro.
  3. 18:2 Lit. alargada.
  4. 18:2 Lit. desde él y más allá.
  5. 18:4 Lit. en.
  6. 18:4 Lit. a la luz.
  7. 18:5 Lit. esté completo.
  8. 18:6 O pasarán el tiempo de la cosecha.
  9. 18:7 Así en algunas versiones antiguas y en los M.M.M.; en el T.M., que consiste.
  10. 18:7 Lit. alargado.
  11. 18:7 Lit. desde él y más allá.

Proclamation Against Ethiopia

18 Woe (A)to the land shadowed with buzzing wings,
Which is beyond the rivers of [a]Ethiopia,
Which sends ambassadors by sea,
Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,
To a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide.”

All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth:
(B)When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;
And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.
For so the Lord said to me,
“I will take My rest,
And I will [b]look from My dwelling place
Like clear heat in sunshine,
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect
And the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks
And take away and cut down the branches.
They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey
And for the beasts of the earth;
The birds of prey will summer on them,
And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

In that time (C)a present will be brought to the Lord of hosts
[c]From a people tall and smooth of skin,
And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts,
To Mount Zion.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 18:1 Heb. Cush
  2. Isaiah 18:4 watch
  3. Isaiah 18:7 So with DSS, LXX, Vg.; MT omits From; Tg. To

An Oracle concerning Cush

18 Woe, land of buzzing[a] wings
    beyond the rivers of Cush,(A)
sending ambassadors by the Nile
    in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
    to a nation tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
    a nation mighty[b] and conquering,
    whose land the rivers divide.(B)

All you inhabitants of the world,
    you who live on the earth,
when a signal is raised on the mountains, look!
    When a trumpet is blown, listen!(C)
For thus the Lord said to me:
“I will quietly look from my dwelling
    like clear heat in sunshine,
    like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”(D)
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over
    and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks,
    and the spreading branches he will hew away.(E)
They shall all be left
    to the birds of prey of the mountains
    and to the animals of the earth.
And the birds of prey will summer on them,
    and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.(F)

At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of hosts from[c] a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.(G)

Footnotes

  1. 18.1 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 18.2 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  3. 18.7 Q ms Gk Vg: MT of