Isaiah 2
1 The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
アモツの子イザヤがユダとエルサレムについて示された言葉。
2 And in the last days, the mountain of the house of the Lord will be prepared at the summit of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills, and all the nations shall flow to it.
終りの日に次のことが起る。主の家の山は、もろもろの山のかしらとして堅く立ち、もろもろの峰よりも高くそびえ、すべて国はこれに流れてき、
3 And many peoples will go, and they will say: “Let us approach and ascend to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
多くの民は来て言う、「さあ、われわれは主の山に登り、ヤコブの神の家へ行こう。彼はその道をわれわれに教えられる、われわれはその道に歩もう」と。律法はシオンから出、主の言葉はエルサレムから出るからである。
4 And he will judge the nations, and he will rebuke many peoples. And they shall forge their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they continue to train for battle.
彼はもろもろの国のあいだにさばきを行い、多くの民のために仲裁に立たれる。こうして彼らはそのつるぎを打ちかえて、すきとし、そのやりを打ちかえて、かまとし、国は国にむかって、つるぎをあげず、彼らはもはや戦いのことを学ばない。
5 O house of Jacob, let us approach and walk in the light of the Lord.
ヤコブの家よ、さあ、われわれは主の光に歩もう。
6 For you have cast aside your people, the house of Jacob, because they have been filled up, as in past times, and because they have had soothsayers as the Philistines have, and because they have joined themselves to foreign servants.
あなたはあなたの民ヤコブの家を捨てられた。これは彼らが東の国からの占い師をもって満たし、ペリシテびとのように占い者となり、外国人と同盟を結んだからである。
7 Their land has been filled with silver and gold. And there is no end to their storehouses.
彼らの国には金銀が満ち、その財宝は限りない。また彼らの国には馬が満ち、その戦車も限りない。
8 And their land has been filled with horses. And their four-horse chariots are innumerable. And their land has been filled with idols. They have adored the work of their hands, which their own fingers have made.
また彼らの国には偶像が満ち、彼らはその手のわざを拝み、その指で作ったものを拝む。
9 And man has bowed himself down, and so man has become debased. Therefore, you should not forgive them.
こうして人はかがめられ、人々は低くされる。どうか彼らをおゆるしにならぬように。
10 Enter into the rock, and hide in a ditch in the soil, from the presence of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.
あなたは岩の間にはいり、ちりの中にかくれて、主の恐るべきみ前と、その威光の輝きとを避けよ。
11 The lofty eyes of man have been humbled, and the haughtiness of men will be bowed down. Then the Lord alone shall be exalted, in that day.
その日には目をあげて高ぶる者は低くせられ、おごる人はかがめられ、主のみ高くあげられる。
12 For the day of the Lord of hosts will prevail over all the proud and self-exalted, and over all the arrogant, and each one shall be humbled,
これは、万軍の主の一日があって、すべて誇る者と高ぶる者、すべておのれを高くする者と得意な者とに臨むからである。
13 and over all the straight and tall cedars of Lebanon, and over all the oaks of Bashan;
またレバノンの高くそびえるすべての香柏、バシャンのすべてのかしの木、
14 and over all the lofty mountains, and over all the elevated hills;
またすべての高い山々、すべてのそびえ立つ峰々、
15 and over every lofty tower, and over every fortified wall;
すべての高きやぐら、すべての堅固な城壁、
16 and over all the ships of Tarshish, and over all the beauty that may be seen.
タルシシのすべての船、すべての麗しい船舶に臨む。
17 And the loftiness of men will be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men will be brought low. And the Lord alone shall be exalted, in that day.
その日には高ぶる者はかがめられ、おごる人は低くせられ、主のみ高くあげられる。
18 And idols will be thoroughly crushed.
こうして偶像はことごとく滅びうせる。
19 And they will go into the caves of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, from the presence of the dread of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he will have risen up to strike the earth.
主が立って地を脅かされるとき、人々は岩のほら穴にはいり、また地の穴にはいって、主の恐るべきみ前と、その威光の輝きとを避ける。
20 In that day, man shall cast aside his idols of silver and his images of gold, which he had made for himself, as if to reverence the moles and the bats.
その日、人々は拝むためにみずから造ったしろがねの偶像と、こがねの偶像とを、もぐらもちと、こうもりに投げ与え、
21 And so he will go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of stone, from the presence of the dread of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he will have risen up to strike the earth.
岩のほら穴や、がけの裂け目にはいり、主が立って地を脅かされるとき、主の恐るべきみ前と、その威光の輝きとを避ける。
22 Therefore, rest away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he considers himself to be exalted.
あなたがたは鼻から息の出入りする人に、たよることをやめよ、このような者はなんの価値があろうか。
