¹关于古实的预言

¹Ho, land shadowed [with] wings, That [is] beyond the rivers of Cush,

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。

²That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, — Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled.

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。

³All ye inhabitants of the world, And ye dwellers of earth, At the lifting up of an ensign on hills ye look, And at the blowing of a trumpet ye hear.

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。”

⁴For thus said Jehovah unto me, `I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

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。

⁵For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath [one] cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.

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。

⁶They are left together to the ravenous fowl of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth, And summered on them hath the ravenous fowl, And every beast of the earth wintereth on them.

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。

⁷At that time brought is a present to Jehovah of Hosts, A nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the beginning hitherto, A nation meting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled, Unto the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts — mount Zion!`