Isaiah 18

hoy erets tsiltsal kenafayim asher me'ever lenahare-khush

Ah, land in the deep shadow of wings, Beyond the rivers of Cush!

hasholeakh bayyam tsirim uvikhle-gome al-pene-mayim lekhu malakhim qallim el-goy memushakh umorat el-am nora min-hu vahale'ah goy qav-qav umevusah asher-baze'u neharim artso

Go, swift messengers, To a nation far and remote, To a people thrust forth and away— A nation of gibber and chatter— Whose land is cut off by streams; Which sends out envoys by sea, In papyrus vessels upon the water!

kol-yosheve tevel veshokhene arets kinso-nes harim tiru vekhitqoa shofar tishma'u

[Say this:] “All you who live in the world And inhabit the earth, When a flag is raised in the hills, take note! When a ram’s horn is blown, give heed!”

ki khoh amar Adonai elay (shqvth) [eshqotah] ve'abbitah vimkhoni kekhom tsakh ale-or ke'av tal bekhom qatsir

For thus GOD said to me: “I rest calm and confident in My habitation— Like a scorching heat upon sprouts, Like a rain-cloud in the heat of reaping time.”

ki-lifne qatsir ketom-perakh uvoser gomel yihyeh nitsa vekharat hazzalzallim bammazmerot ve'et-hannetishot hesir hetaz

For before the harvest, yet after the budding, When the blossom has hardened into berries, [God] will trim away the twigs with pruning hooks, And lop off the trailing branches.

ye'azevu yakhdav le'et harim ulevehemat ha'arets veqats alayw ha'ayit vekhol-behemat ha'arets alayw tekheraf

They shall all be left To the kites of the hills And to the beasts of the earth; The kites shall summer on them And all the beasts of the earth shall winter on them.

ba'et hahi yuval-shay la-Adonai tseva'ot am memushakh umorat ume'am nora min-hu vahale'ah goy qav-qav umevusah asher baze'u neharim artso el-meqom shem-Adonai tseva'ot har-tsiyyon

In that time, Tribute shall be brought to GOD of Hosts [From] a people far and remote, From a people thrust forth and away— A nation of gibber and chatter, Whose land is cut off by streams— At the place where the name of GOD of Hosts abides, At Mount Zion.