God Will Punish Ethiopia
1 Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia there is a land where the sound of wings is heard. 2 From that land ambassadors come down the Nile in boats made of reeds. Go back home, swift messengers! Take a message back to your land divided by rivers, to your strong and powerful nation, to your tall and smooth-skinned people, who are feared all over the world.
3 Listen, everyone who lives on earth! Look for a signal flag to be raised on the mountaintops! Listen for the blowing of the bugle! 4 The Lord said to me, “I will look down from heaven as quietly as the dew forms in the warm nights of harvest time, as serenely as the sun shines in the heat of the day. 5 Before the grapes are gathered, when the blossoms have all fallen and the grapes are ripening, the enemy will destroy the Ethiopians as easily as a knife cuts branches from a vine. 6 The corpses of their soldiers will be left exposed to the birds and the wild animals. In summer the birds will feed on them, and in winter, the animals.”
7 A time is coming when the Lord Almighty will receive offerings from this land divided by rivers, this strong and powerful nation, this tall and smooth-skinned people, who are feared all over the world. They will come to Mount Zion, where the Lord Almighty is worshiped.
1 Ak tu, zeme, kas pilna spārnu trokšņa, viņpus Aitiopijas upēm,
2 Kas vēstnešus sūta niedru laivās pa lielo upi Nīlu un pa visiem ūdeņiem: eita jūs, čaklie vēstneši, pie savas augumā lielās tautas ar gludo un spīdošo ādu, pie tautas, kas varena spēkā un samin visus zem kājām, kuras zemi šķērso upes!
3 Jūs, visi zemes iedzīvotāji un pasaules ļaudis, kad redzat karogu paceļam kalnos, tad raugaities, un kad atskan taure, tad uzklausaities!
4 Jo tas Kungs man tā sacīja: „Es klusu noskatīšos no sava troņa, kā karstums spiež, saulei spīdot pie skai-drām debesīm, un kā padebeši raso pļaujamā laika svelmē,“
5 Jo priekš ražas ievākšanas, kad ziedu laiks beidzies un ogu pušķīši jau veidojas par briestošu un ienākušos ķekaru, tad vīna dārznieks stīgas nogriež ar dārza nazi un atvases nocērt.
6 To visu atstāj kalnu ērgļiem un meža zvēriem, tā ka ērgļi tur paliek vasarā un meža zvēri ziemā.
7 Tanī laikā glītā un spēcīgi noaugušā tauta, kas vispār bīstama, kas varena spēkā un visu samin zem kājām, kuras zemi šķērso upes, atnesīs dāvanas uz to vietu, kur mājo tā Kunga Cebaota vārds, uz Ciānas kalnu.
