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18:1
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唉！古实河外翅膀刷刷响声之地，
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Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
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18:2
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差遣使者在水面上，坐蒲草船过海。先知说：你们快行的使者，要到高大光滑的民那里去。自从开国以来，那民极其可畏，是分地界践踏人的；他们的地有江河分开。
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that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
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18:3
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世上一切的居民和地上所住的人哪，山上竖立大旗的时候你们要看；吹角的时候你们要听。
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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 trumpet is blown, hear ye.
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18:4
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耶和华对我这样说：我要安静，在我的居所观看，如同日光中的清热，又如露水的云雾在收割的热天。
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For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
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18:5
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收割之先，花开已谢，花也成了将熟的葡萄；他必用镰刀削去嫩枝，又砍掉蔓延的枝条，
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For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.
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18:6
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都要撇给山间的鸷鸟和地上的野兽。夏天，鸷鸟要宿在其上；冬天，野兽都卧在其中。
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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.
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18:7
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到那时，这高大光滑的民，就是从开国以来极其可畏、分地界践踏人的，他们的地有江河分开；他们必将礼物奉给万军之耶和华，就是奉到锡安山耶和华安置他名的地方。
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In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.
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