| א הוֹי אֶרֶץ, צִלְצַל כְּנָפָיִם, אֲשֶׁר מֵעֵבֶר, לְנַהֲרֵי-כוּשׁ. | 1 Ah, land of the buzzing of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; |
| ב הַשֹּׁלֵחַ בַּיָּם צִירִים, וּבִכְלֵי-גֹמֶא עַל-פְּנֵי-מַיִם, לְכוּ מַלְאָכִים קַלִּים אֶל-גּוֹי מְמֻשָּׁךְ וּמוֹרָט, אֶל-עַם נוֹרָא מִן-הוּא וָהָלְאָה--גּוֹי קַו-קָו וּמְבוּסָה, אֲשֶׁר-בָּזְאוּ נְהָרִים אַרְצוֹ. | 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide! |
| ג כָּל-יֹשְׁבֵי תֵבֵל, וְשֹׁכְנֵי אָרֶץ, כִּנְשֹׂא-נֵס הָרִים תִּרְאוּ, וְכִתְקֹעַ שׁוֹפָר תִּשְׁמָעוּ. {ס} | 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the horn is blown, hear ye. {S} |
| ד כִּי כֹה אָמַר יְהוָה אֵלַי, אשקוטה אֶשְׁקֳטָה וְאַבִּיטָה בִמְכוֹנִי, כְּחֹם צַח עֲלֵי-אוֹר, כְּעָב טַל בְּחֹם קָצִיר. | 4 For thus hath the LORD said unto me: I will hold Me still, and I will look on in My dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. |
| ה כִּי-לִפְנֵי קָצִיר כְּתָם-פֶּרַח, וּבֹסֶר גֹּמֵל יִהְיֶה נִצָּה; וְכָרַת הַזַּלְזַלִּים בַּמַּזְמֵרוֹת, וְאֶת-הַנְּטִישׁוֹת הֵסִיר הֵתַז. | 5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off. |
| ו יֵעָזְבוּ יַחְדָּו לְעֵיט הָרִים, וּלְבֶהֱמַת הָאָרֶץ; וְקָץ עָלָיו הָעַיִט, וְכָל-בֶּהֱמַת הָאָרֶץ עָלָיו תֶּחֱרָף. {ס} | 6 They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. {S} |
| ז בָּעֵת הַהִיא יוּבַל-שַׁי לַיהוָה צְבָאוֹת, עַם מְמֻשָּׁךְ וּמוֹרָט, וּמֵעַם נוֹרָא, מִן-הוּא וָהָלְאָה; גּוֹי קַו-קָו וּמְבוּסָה, אֲשֶׁר בָּזְאוּ נְהָרִים אַרְצוֹ, אֶל-מְקוֹם שֵׁם-יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת, הַר-צִיּוֹן. {פ} | 7 In that time shall a present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people tall and of glossy skin, and from a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. {P} |