Esias 22
1 THE WORD OF THE VALLEY OF SION. What has happened to you, that now you are all gone up to the housetops which help you not?
幻の谷についての託宣。あなたがたはなぜ、みな屋根にのぼったのか。
2 The city is filled with shouting [men]: your slain are not slain with swords, nor are your dead those who have died in battle.
叫び声で満ちている者、騒がしい都、喜びに酔っている町よ。あなたのうちの殺された者はつるぎで殺されたのではなく、また戦いに倒れたのでもない。
3 All your princes have fled, and [your] captives are tightly bound, and the mighty [men] in you have fled far away.
あなたのつかさたちは皆共にのがれて行ったが、弓を捨てて捕えられた。彼らは遠く逃げて行ったが、あなたのうちの見つかった者はみな捕えられた。
4 Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.
それゆえ、わたしは言った、「わたしを顧みてくれるな、わたしはいたく泣き悲しむ。わが民の娘の滅びのために、わたしを慰めようと努めてはならない」。
5 For [it is] a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and [there is] perplexity [sent] from the Lord of hosts: they wander in the valley of Sion; they wander from the least to the greatest on the mountains.
万軍の神、主は幻の谷に騒ぎと、踏みにじりと、混乱の日をこさせられる。城壁はくずれ落ち、叫び声は山に聞える。
6 And the Elamites took [their] quivers, and [there were] men mounted on horses, and [there was] a gathering for battle.
エラムは箙を負い、戦車と騎兵とをもってきたり、キルは盾をあらわした。
7 And it shall be [that] your choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up your gates.
あなたの最も美しい谷は戦車で満ち、騎兵はもろもろの門にむかって立った。
8 And they shall uncover the gates of Juda, and they shall look in that day on the choice houses of the city.
ユダを守るおおいは取り除かれた。その日あなたは林の家の武具を仰ぎ望んだ。
9 And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David: and they saw that they were many, and that one [had] turned the water of the old pool into the city;
またあなたがたはダビデの町の破れの多いのを見、下の池の水を集め、
10 and that they [had] pulled down the houses of Jerusalem, to fortify the wall of the city.
エルサレムの家を数え、またその家をこわして城壁を築き、
11 And you procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient pool: but you looked not to him that made it from the beginning, and regarded not him that created it.
一つの貯水池を二つの城壁の間に造って古池の水をひいた。しかしあなたがたはこの事をなされた者を仰ぎ望まず、この事を昔から計画された者を顧みなかった。
12 And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:
その日、万軍の神、主は泣き悲しみ、頭をかぶろにし、荒布をまとうことを命じられたが、
13 but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
見よ、あなたがたは喜び楽しみ、牛をほふり、羊を殺し、肉を食い、酒を飲んで言う、「われわれは食い、かつ飲もう、明日は死ぬのだから」。
14 And these things are revealed in the ears of the Lord of hosts: for this sin shall not be forgiven you, until you die.
万軍の主はみずからわたしの耳に示された、「まことに、この不義はあなたがたが死ぬまで、ゆるされることはない」と万軍の神、主は言われる。
15 Thus says the Lord of hosts, Go into the chamber, to Somnas the treasurer, and say to him, Why are you here?
万軍の神、主はこう言われる、「さあ、王の家をつかさどるこの執事セブナに行って言いなさい、
16 and what have you to do here, that you have here hewn yourself a sepulchre, and made yourself a sepulchre on high, and have graven for yourself a dwelling in the rock?
『あなたはここになんの係わりがありますか。あなたはだれの縁故でここに自分のために墓を掘ったのですか。あなたは高い所に墓を掘り、岩をうがって自分のためにすみかを造った。
17 Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy [such] a man, and will take away your robe and your glorious crown,
強い人よ、見よ、主はあなたを激しくなげ倒される。主はあなたを堅くつかまえ、
18 and will cast you into a great and unmeasured land, and there you shall die: and he will bring your fair chariot to shame, and the house of your prince to be trodden down.
ぐるぐるまわして、まりのように広々した地に投げられる。主人の家の恥となる者よ、あなたはそこで死に、あなたの華麗な車はそこに残る。
19 And you shall be removed from your stewardship, and from your place.
わたしは、あなたをその職から追い、その地位から引きおろす。
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Chelcias:
その日、わたしは、わがしもべヒルキヤの子エリアキムを呼んで、
21 and I will put on him your robe, and I will grant him your crown with power, and I will give your stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Juda.
あなたの衣を着せ、あなたの帯をしめさせ、あなたの権力を彼の手にゆだねる。彼はエルサレムの民とユダの家との父となる。
22 And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him: and I will give him the key of the house of David [upon] his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.
わたしはまたダビデの家のかぎを彼の肩に置く。彼が開けば閉じる者なく、彼が閉じれば開く者はない。
23 And I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne of his father's house.
わたしは彼を堅い所に打ったくぎのようにする。そして彼はその父の家の誉の座となり、
24 And every one that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in him, from the least to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day.
その父の家のすべての重さは彼の上にかかる。すなわちその子、その孫およびすべての小さい器、鉢からすべてのびんにいたるまでみな、彼の上にかかる』」。
25 Thus says the Lord of hosts, The man that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed and be taken away, and shall fall; and the glory that is upon him shall be utterly destroyed: for the Lord has spoken it.
万軍の主は言われる、「その日、堅い所に打ったくぎは抜け、切られて落ちる。その上にかかっている荷もまた取り去られる」と主は語られた。
