1關於古實的預言古實河外，船隻彼此碰撞，響聲四起之地，有禍了！
1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2這就是那經常差派使者，在水面上乘坐蒲草船渡海的地方。去吧！快行的使者，到那身軀高大、皮膚光滑的國去，到一個遠近都為人所懼怕的民族那裡去，這國是強盛和踐踏人的，他們的地有河流把地分開。
2that 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世上所有的居民，住在全地上的人哪！山上豎起旗幟的時候，你們要注意；號角吹響的時候，你們要聆聽。
3All 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耶和華這樣對我說：“我要從我的居所安靜觀看，像日光中閃爍的熱氣，又像收割時的熱氣中有露水的雲彩。”
4For 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因為在收割以前，花蕾開盡，花朵也成了將熟的葡萄之時，他就用鐮刀削去嫩枝，又砍掉蔓延的枝子。
5For 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它們都要撇下，給山間的鷙鳥，和地上的野獸；鷙鳥必吃它們來度過夏天，地上的百獸必吃它們來度過冬天。
6They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.
7到那時，這個身軀高大、皮膚光滑的國，就是遠近都為人所懼怕的民族，強盛和踐踏人的國，他們的地有河流把地分開，他們必把禮物帶來給萬軍之耶和華，就是奉到錫安山，萬軍之耶和華立他名的地方。
7In 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.