1 Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia:

2 Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.

3 All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear.

4 For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

6 They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter.

7 In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.

1 古实河外， 船只彼此碰撞， 响声四起之地， 有祸了！

2 这就是那经常差派使者， 在水面上乘坐蒲草船渡海的地方。去吧！ 快行的使者， 到那身躯高大、皮肤光滑的国去， 到一个远近都为人所惧怕的民族那里去， 这国是强盛和践踏人的， 他们的地有河流把地分开。

3 世上所有的居民， 住在全地上的人哪！ 山上竖起旗帜的时候， 你们要注意； 号角吹响的时候， 你们要聆听。

4 耶和华这样对我说： "我要从我的居所安静观看， 像日光中闪烁的热气， 又像收割时的热气中有露水的云彩。"

5 因为在收割以前， 花蕾开尽， 花朵也成了将熟的葡萄之时， 他就用镰刀削去嫩枝， 又砍掉蔓延的枝子。

6 它们都要撇下， 给山间的鸷鸟， 和地上的野兽； 鸷鸟必吃它们来度过夏天， 地上的百兽必吃它们来度过冬天。

7 到那时， 这个身躯高大、皮肤光滑的国， 就是远近都为人所惧怕的民族， 强盛和践踏人的国， 他们的地有河流把地分开， 他们必把礼物带来给万军之耶和华， 就是奉到锡安山， 万军之耶和华立他名的地方。