1 Ak tu, zeme, kas pilna spārnu trokšņa, viņpus Etiopijas 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 skaidrām 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 noaugusī tauta, kas 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.
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying , Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. 6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 ¶ In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
