Isaiah 34
1 O nations and peoples: draw near, and listen, and pay attention! Let the earth and its fullness hear, the entire world and all its offspring.
もろもろの国よ、近づいて聞け。もろもろの民よ、耳を傾けよ。地とそれに満ちるもの、世界とそれから出るすべてのものよ、聞け。
2 For the indignation of the Lord is over all the nations, and his fury is over all their armies. He has put them to death, and he has given them over to slaughter.
主はすべての国にむかって怒り、そのすべての軍勢にむかって憤り、彼らをことごとく滅ぼし、彼らをわたして、ほふらせられた。
3 Their slain will be cast out, and from their carcasses a foul odor will rise up. The mountains will languish because of their blood.
彼らは殺されて投げすてられ、その死体の悪臭は立ちのぼり、山々はその血で溶けて流れる。
4 And the entire army of the heavens will languish, and the heavens will be folded like a book. And their entire army will fall away, as a leaf falls from the vine or from the fig tree.
天の万象は衰え、もろもろの天は巻物のように巻かれ、その万象はぶどうの木から葉の落ちるように、いちじくの木から葉の落ちるように落ちる。
5 “For my sword in heaven has been inebriated. Behold, it will descend upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter, unto judgment.”
わたしのつるぎは天において憤りをもって酔った。見よ、これはエドムの上にくだり、わたしが滅びに定めた民の上にくだって、これをさばく。
6 The sword of the Lord has been filled with blood. It has been thickened by the blood of lambs and he-goats, by the innermost blood of rams. For the victim of the Lord is in Bozrah, and a great slaughter is in the land of Edom.
主のつるぎは血で満ち、脂肪で肥え、小羊とやぎの血、雄羊の腎臓の脂肪で肥えている。主がボズラで犠牲の獣をほふり、エドムの地で大いに殺されたからである。
7 And the single-horned beasts will descend with them, and the bulls along with the mighty. Their land will be inebriated by blood, and their ground by the fat of their lazy ones.
野牛は彼らと共にほふり場にくだり、子牛は力ある雄牛と共にくだる。その国は血で酔い、その土は脂肪で肥やされる。
8 For this is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of retribution for the judgment of Zion.
主はあだをかえす日をもち、シオンの訴えのために報いられる年をもたれるからである。
9 And its torrents will be turned into tar, and its soil into sulfur. And its land will become burning tar.
エドムのもろもろの川は変って樹脂となり、その土は変って硫黄となり、その地は変って燃える樹脂となって、
10 Night and day, it will not be extinguished; its smoke will rise up without ceasing. From generation to generation it will remain desolate. No one will pass through it, forever and ever.
夜も昼も消えず、その煙は、とこしえに立ちのぼる。これは世々荒れすたれて、とこしえまでもそこを通る者はない。
11 The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it. And the ibis and the raven will live in it. And a measuring line will be extended over it, so that it may be reduced to nothing, and a plumb line, unto desolation.
たかと、やまあらしとがそこをすみかとし、ふくろうと、からすがそこに住む。主はその上に荒廃をきたらせる測りなわを張り、尊い人々の上に混乱を起す下げ振りをさげられる。
12 Its nobles will not be in that place. Instead, they will call upon the king, and all its leaders will be as nothing.
人々はこれを名づけて「国なき所」といい、その君たちは皆うせてなくなる。
13 And thorns and nettles will rise up in its houses, and the thistle in its fortified places. And it will be the lair of serpents and the pasture of ostriches.
そのとりでの上には、いばらが生え、その城には、いらくさと、あざみとが生え、山犬のすみか、だちょうのおる所となる。
14 And demons and monsters will meet, and the hairy ones will cry out to one another. There, the ogress has lain down and found rest for herself.
野の獣はハイエナと出会い、鬼神はその友を呼び、夜の魔女もそこに降りてきて、休み所を得る。
15 In that place, the hedgehog has kept its den, and has raised its young, and has dug around them, and has kept them warm in its shadow. In that place, the birds of prey have joined together, one to another.
ふくろうはそこに巣をつくって卵を産み、それをかえして、そのひなを翼の陰に集める。とびもまた、おのおのその連れ合いと共に、そこに集まる。
16 Search and read diligently in the book of the Lord. Not one of them was lacking; not one has sought for the other. For what has proceeded from my mouth, he has commanded, and his very Spirit has gathered them.
あなたがたは主の書をつまびらかにたずねて、これを読め。これらのものは一つも欠けることなく、また一つもその連れ合いを欠くものはない。これは主の口がこれを命じ、その霊が彼らを集められたからである。
17 And he has cast lots over them. And his hand has distributed this to them by measure. They will possess it, even unto eternity. From generation to generation, they will dwell in it.
主は彼らのためにくじを引き、手ずから測りなわをもって、この地を分け与え、長く彼らに所有させ、世々ここに住まわせられる。
