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

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." 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. 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. 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.

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。