Isaiah 10
1 Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
わざわいなるかな、不義の判決を下す者、暴虐の宣告を書きしるす者。
2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
彼らは乏しい者の訴えを引き受けず、わが民のうちの貧しい者の権利をはぎ、寡婦の資産を奪い、みなしごのものをかすめる。
3 And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?
あなたがたは刑罰の日がきたなら、何をしようとするのか。大風が遠くから来るとき、何をしようとするのか。あなたがたはのがれていって、だれに助けを求めようとするのか。また、どこにあなたがたの富を残そうとするのか。
4 ... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
ただ捕われた者の中にかがみ、殺された者の中に伏し倒れるのみだ。それでも主の怒りはやまず、なおも、そのみ手を伸ばされる。
5 Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
ああ、アッスリヤはわが怒りのつえ、わが憤りのむちだ。
6 I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
わたしは彼をつかわして不信の国を攻め、彼に命じてわが怒りの民を攻め、かすめ奪わせ、彼らをちまたの泥のように踏みにじらせる。
7 But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.
しかし彼はそのようには思わず、その心もそのようには考えず、かえってその心は滅ぼすことを思い、あまたの国々を倒そうとする。
8 For he says, Are not all my captains kings?
彼は言う、「わが諸侯はみな王ではないか。
9 Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
カルノはカルケミシのようではないか。ハマテはアルパデのようではないか。サマリヤはダマスコのようではないか。
10 As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;
わが手は偶像に仕える国々に伸びた。その彫った像はエルサレムおよびサマリヤのものにまさっていた。
11 So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.
わたしはサマリヤとその偶像に行ったように、エルサレムとその偶像に行わぬであろうか」。
12 For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.
主がシオンの山とエルサレムとになそうとすることを、ことごとくなし遂げられた時、主はアッスリヤ王の無礼な言葉と、その高ぶりとを罰せられる。
13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;
彼は言う、「わが手の力により、またわが知恵によって、わたしはこれをなした。わたしは賢いからである。わたしはもろもろの民の境を除き、その財宝を奪った。またわたしは雄牛のように、位に座する者を引きおろした。
14 And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
わが手は巣を取るように、もろもろの民の富を得た。またわたしは人々が捨てられた卵を集めるように、全地を取り集めた。あるいは翼を動かし、あるいは口を開き、あるいはぺちゃくちゃ言う者もなかった」。
15 Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
おのは、それを用いて切る者にむかって、自分を誇ることができようか。のこぎりは、それを動かす者にむかって、みずから高ぶることができようか。これはあたかも、むちが自分をあげる者を動かし、つえが木でない者をあげようとするのに等しい。
16 For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.
それゆえ、主、万軍の主は、その肥えた勇士の中に病気を送って衰えさせ、その栄光の下に火の燃えるような炎を燃やされる。
17 And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.
イスラエルの光は火となり、その聖者は炎となり、そのいばらと、おどろとを一日のうちに焼き滅ぼす。
18 And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.
また、その林と土肥えた田畑の栄えを、魂も、からだも二つながら滅ぼし、病める者のやせ衰える時のようにされる。
19 And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.
その林の木の残りのものはわずかであって、わらべもそれを書きとめることができる。
20 And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
その日にはイスラエルの残りの者と、ヤコブの家の生き残った者とは、もはや自分たちを撃った者にたよらず、真心をもってイスラエルの聖者、主にたより、
21 The rest, even the rest of Jacob, will come back to the Strong God.
残りの者、すなわちヤコブの残りの者は大能の神に帰る。
22 For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.
あなたの民イスラエルは海の砂のようであっても、そのうちの残りの者だけが帰って来る。滅びはすでに定まり、義であふれている。
23 For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to make destruction complete in all the land.
主、万軍の主は定められた滅びを全地に行われる。
24 For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.
それゆえ、主、万軍の主はこう言われる、「シオンに住むわが民よ、アッスリヤびとが、エジプトびとがしたように、むちをもってあなたを打ち、つえをあげてあなたをせめても、彼らを恐れてはならない。
25 For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.
ただしばらくして、わが憤りはやみ、わが怒りは彼らを滅ぼすからである。
26 And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.
万軍の主は、むかしミデアンびとをオレブの岩で撃たれた時のように、彼らにむかって、むちをふるわれる。またそのつえを海の上にのばし、エジプトでなされたように、それをあげられる。
27 And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.
その日には、彼の重荷はあなたの肩からおり、彼のくびきはあなたの首から離れる」。彼はリンモンから上り、
28 He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.
アイアテにきたり、ミグロンを過ぎ、ミクマシでその行李をとどめ、
29 They have gone across the mountain; Geba will be our resting-place tonight, they say: Ramah is shaking with fear; Gibeah of Saul has gone in flight.
渡しを過ぎて、ゲバに宿る。ラマはおののき、サウルのギベアは逃げ去った。
30 Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her.
ガリムの娘よ、声をあげて叫べ。ライシよ、耳を傾けよ。アナトテよ、彼に答えよ。
31 Madmenah has gone; the men of Gebim are putting their goods in a safe place.
マデメナは逃げ去り、ゲビムの民は隠れ場を求めた。
32 This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
この日彼はノブに立ちとどまり、シオンの娘の山、エルサレムの丘にむかって、その手を振る。
33 See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down.
見よ、主、万軍の主は、恐ろしい力をもって枝を切りおろされる。たけの高いものも切り落され、そびえ立つものは低くされる。
34 And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.
主はおのをもって茂りあう林を切られる。みごとな木の茂るレバノンも倒される。
