  | Kniha proroka IzaiášaBiblia - Sväté písmo(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD) | Iz 18, 1-7 |
1 Iz 18, 1 Woe to the land, that winged cymbal, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, 2 Iz 18, 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 Iz 18, 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 Iz 18, 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 Iz 18, 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 Iz 18, 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 Iz 18, 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.
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Iz 18,1 - Etiópia je krajina zuniacich krídel, lebo v nej je mnoho hmyzu zuniaceho krídlami. Rieky Etiópie sú Biely Níl, Modrý Níl a Atbara. Morom sa tu volá pre svoju veľkosť rieka Níl. Papyrusové, smolou vymazané (porov. Ex 2,3) člnky boli veľmi ľahké. Posolstvo Etiópčanov išlo do Jeruzalema, aby získalo kráľa Ezechiáša pre spojenectvo proti Asýrom. Prorok posiela však posolstvo naspäť do Etiópie a tým varuje aj Ezechiáša pred spojenectvom s pohanmi. Etiópčania sa volajú lesklými pre svoju bronzovú pleť.
Iz 18,3-7 - Pán sa pokojne pozerá na výčiny Asýrov, ale až okolnosti dozrejú, sám porazí ich vojsko, ktorého mŕtvoly budú pokrmom vtáctvu a zveri. Porážkou asýrskeho vojska sa oslobodia aj Etiópčania, ktorí za to prinesú z povďačnosti dary na vrch Sion, kde sa uctieva meno Pána. – Porážka asýrskeho vojska je opísaná Iz 37,36.
