Isaías 18

He Poropititanga mō Etiopia

1 Ha, ko te whenua e kapakapa nei ngā parirau

i tērā taha o ngā wai o Etiopia!

2 E unga karere nei i runga i te moana,

ā, ko ō rātou kaipuke he kākaho i runga i ngā wai,

e kī ana, Haere, e ngā karere tere,

ki tētahi iwi roroa, maheni hoki,

ki te iwi i wehingia i tō rātou tīmatanga iho ā mohoa noa nei;

ki te iwi he mahi rūri nei, he takatakahi nei tāna,

ko tōna whenua wāhia iho e ngā awa.

3 E ngā tāngata katoa o te ao,

e te hunga e noho ana i te whenua,

titiro mai, ina whakaarahia te kara ki runga i ngā maunga;

whakarongo mai, ina whakatangihia te tētere.

4 Ko tā Ihowā kupu hoki tēnei ki ahau:

"Ka āta noho ahau, ka titiro hoki i tōku nohoanga;

ka rite ahau ki te mahana i te mea ka mahea,

ka rite ki te kapua tōmairangi i te mahana o te kotinga."

5 Hei mua hoki i te kotinga, kia ngahoro te puāwai,

kia puta ki te puāwai he karepe e maoa haere ana,

nā, ka hātepea atu e ia ngā peka ririki ki te tapahi peka,

ā, ko ngā manga ka tangohia, ka tapahia ki raro.

6 Ka waiho ngātahi atu rātou

mā ngā manu tokokai o ngā maunga,

mā ngā kararehe hoki o te whenua.

Ka whakatau ngā manu tokokai

ki runga ki a rātou i te raumati,

ka whakakainga hoki ngā kararehe katoa

o te whenua ki reira i te hōtoke.

7 I taua wā ka maua mai he hākari ki a Ihowā o ngā mano,

o te iwi roroa, maheni hoki,

nā te iwi i wehingia i tō rātou tīmatanga iho, ā mohoa noa nei,

nā te iwi he mahi rūri nei,

he takatakahi nei tāna, ā, ko tōna whenua wāhia iho e ngā awa –

ki te wāhi o te ingoa o Ihowā o ngā mano, ki Maunga Hiona.

1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 2 that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye.

4 For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down. 6 They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. 7 In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.