Isaías 18

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¹ ¡Ay, tierra de susurro de alas, la de allende los ríos de Kus,	¹ Woe to the land, that winged cymbal, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
² la que envía por mar embajadores, y en barcos de juncos sobre la haz de las aguas! Id, mensajeros ligeros, a la nación esbelta y de brillante piel, al pueblo temible desde siempre, nación vigorosa y dominadora, cuya tierra surcan ríos.	² which sends ambassadors by sea and in vessels of papyrus above the waters. Go forth, O swift Angels, to a nation which has been convulsed and torn apart, to a terrible people, after whom there is no other, to a nation apprehensive and downtrodden, whose land the rivers have spoiled.
³ Todos los moradores del orbe y habitantes de la tierra, al izarse pendón en los montes, mirad, al tañerse el cuerno, escuchad;	³ All inhabitants of the world, you who dwell upon the earth: when the sign will have been elevated on the mountains, you will see, and you will hear the blast of the trumpet.
⁴ que así me ha dicho Yahveh: Estaré quedo y observaré desde mi puesto, como calor ardiente al brillar la luz, como nube de rocío en el calor de la siega.	⁴ For the Lord says this to me: I will be quiet, and I will consider in my place, as the light at midday is clear, and as a cloud of dew in the day of the harvest.
⁵ Pues antes de la siega, al acabar la floración, cuando su fruto en cierne comience a madurar, cortará los sarmientos con la podadera y los pámpanos viciosos arrancará y podará.	⁵ For before the harvest, all was flourishing. And it will spring forth with an untimely completion, and its little branches will be pruned with a curved blade. And what is left over will be cut away and shaken off.
⁶ Serán dejados juntamente a merced de las aves rapaces de los montes y de las bestias de la tierra; pasarán allí el verano las rapaces y toda bestia terrestre allí invernará.	⁶ And together they will be abandoned to the birds of the mountains and to the wild beasts of the earth. And the birds will be continuously on them in the summer, and all the wild beasts of the earth will winter over them.
⁷ En aquel tiempo se presentará un obsequio a Yahveh Sebaot, al lugar del nombre de Yahveh Sebaot, el monte Sión, de parte de un pueblo esbelto y de brillante piel, y de parte de un pueblo temible desde siempre, nación vigorosa y dominadora, cuya tierra surcan ríos.	⁷ In that time, a gift will be carried to the Lord of hosts, from a people divided and torn apart, from a terrible people, after whom there has been no other, from an apprehensive nation, apprehensive and downtrodden, whose land the rivers have ruined, and it will be carried to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, to mount Zion.