Isaiah 18
1 কূশীয় নদীগুলির দৈর্য়্ঘ বরাবর দেশটির দিকে দেখ| দেশটি পতঙ্গে ভরে গিয়েছে| তুমি তাদের ডানার ভন ভন শব্দ শুনতে পাচ্ছ|
2 ঐ দেশটি ভেলায করে সমুদ্রের ওপারে বার্তাবাহক পাঠাচ্ছে| হে দ্রুতগামী বার্তাবাহকগণ, দীর্ঘকায ও মসৃণত্বকের লোকদের কাছে যাও| সমস্ত জায়গার লোকরা এই দীর্ঘকায এবং মসৃণত্বকের লোকদের ভয় পায়, তারা একটি শক্তিশালী জাতি যারা অন্য জাতিদের পরাজিত করে| তারা একটি দেশে বাস করে যেটি নদীসমূহ দ্বারা বিভক্ত|
3 ঐসব লোকদের সাবধান করে দাও যে তাদের কোন না কোন বিপদ ঘটবে| এই দেশের লোকদের যে বিপদ ঘটবে সারা পৃথিবীর লোক তা দেখতে পাবে| এই সব লম্বা লোকদের কপালে যা ঘটবে তা পৃথিবীর সবাই পর্বতের ওপরে পতাকা ওড়ার দৃশ্যের মতো পরিষ্কার দেখতে পাবে| যুদ্ধের আগে শিঙা ফোঁকার শব্দের মতো পৃথিবীর সবাই পরিষ্কার ভাবে তা শুনতে পাবে|
4 প্রভু বললেন, “যে জায়গা আমার জন্য তৈরী হয়েছে আমি সেখানে থাকব|কিন্তু 5আমি শান্তভাবে এইসব ঘটনা পর্য়বেক্ষণ করব| গ্রীষ্মের এক মনোরম দুপুরে (যে সময়ে এক ফোঁটা বৃষ্টি হয় না অথচ ভোরে শিশির পড়ে|) একটা ভয়ঙ্কর কিছু ঘটবে|
5 এটি ঘটবে ফসল কাটার সময়ের আগে যখন ফুলগুলি ফুটে যাবে এবং নতুন দ্রাক্ষাগুলি মঞ্জরীত হবে এবং বাড়তে থাকবে; কিন্তু তখন শএুরা এসে গাছগুলি কেটে ফেলবে ও দ্রাক্ষা লতাগুলি ছিঁড়ে ফেলবে এবং সেগুলি ছুঁড়ে ফেলে দেবে|
6 দ্রাক্ষা ক্ষেতগুলি পর্বতের পাখি এবং বন্য জন্তুদের খাবার জন্য পড়ে থাকবে| গ্রীষ্মকালে পাখিরা দ্রাক্ষা-লতায বাসা বাঁধবে এবং শীতকালে বন্য জন্তুরা দ্রাক্ষা-লতা খাবে|”
7 তখন দীর্ঘকায ও মসৃণত্বকের লোকরা প্রভু সর্বশক্তিমানের জন্য একটি বিশেষ নৈবেদ্য নিয়ে আসবে| সমস্ত জায়গার লোকরা এই দীর্ঘকায, মসৃণত্বকের লোকদের ভয় পায়| একটি ক্ষমতাবান জাতি যারা অন্য দেশসমূহকে পরাস্ত করে, তারা একটি দেশে বাস করে যেটি নদীসমূহ দ্বারা বিভক্ত| এই নৈবেদ্য সিয়োন পর্বতে, প্রভু যেখানে অধিষ্ঠান করেন, সেখানে আনা হবে|
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.
1 Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
8 Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.
9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
10 And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the Lord delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.
11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.
13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.