イザヤ書 28
1 エフライムの酔いどれの誇る冠と、酒におぼれた者の肥えた谷のかしらにあるしぼみゆく花の美しい飾りは、わざわいだ。
Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!
2 見よ、主はひとりの力ある強い者を持っておられる。これはひょうをまじえた暴風のように、破り、そこなう暴風雨のように、大水のあふれみなぎる暴風のように、それを激しく地に投げうつ。
See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.
3 エフライムの酔いどれの誇る冠は足で踏みにじられる。
The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;
4 肥えた谷のかしらにあるしぼみゆく花の美しい飾りは、夏前に熟した初なりのいちじくのようだ。人がこれを見ると、取るやいなや、食べてしまう。
And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.
5 その日、万軍の主はその民の残った者のために、栄えの冠となり、麗しい冠となられる。
In that day will the Lord of armies be a crown of glory, and a fair ornament, to the rest of his people;
6 また、さばきの席に座する者にはさばきの霊となり、戦いを門まで追い返す者には力となられる。
And a spirit of wisdom to the judge, and strength to those who keep back the attackers at the door of the town.
7 しかし、これらもまた酒のゆえによろめき、濃き酒のゆえによろける。祭司と預言者とは濃き酒のゆえによろめき、酒のゆえに心みだれ、濃き酒のゆえによろける。彼らは幻を見るときに誤り、さばきを行うときにつまづく。
And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.
8 すべての食卓は吐いた物で満ち、清い所はない。
For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.
9 「彼はだれに知識を教えようとするのか。だれにおとずれを説きあかそうとするのか。乳をやめ、乳ぶさを離れた者にするのだろうか。
To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?
10 それは教訓に教訓、教訓に教訓、規則に規則、規則に規則。ここにも少し、そこにも少し教えるのだ」。
For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.
11 否、むしろ主は異国のくちびると、異国の舌とをもってこの民に語られる。
No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:
12 主はさきに彼らに言われた、「これが安息だ、疲れた者に安息を与えよ。これが休息だ」と。しかし彼らは聞こうとはしなかった。
To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.
13 それゆえ、主の言葉は彼らに、教訓に教訓、教訓に教訓、規則に規則、規則に規則、ここにも少し、そこにも少しとなる。これは彼らが行って、うしろに倒れ、破られ、わなにかけられ、捕えられるためである。
For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.
14 それゆえ、エルサレムにあるこの民を治めるあざける人々よ、主の言葉を聞け。
Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem:
15 あなたがたは言った、「われわれは死と契約をなし、陰府と協定を結んだ。みなぎりあふれる災の過ぎる時にも、それはわれわれに来ない。われわれはうそを避け所となし、偽りをもって身をかくしたからである」。 (Sheol h7585)
Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue: (Sheol h7585)
16 それゆえ、主なる神はこう言われる、「見よ、わたしはシオンに一つの石をすえて基とした。これは試みを経た石、堅くすえた尊い隅の石である。『信ずる者はあわてることはない』。
For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.
17 わたしは公平を、測りなわとし、正義を、下げ振りとする。ひょうは偽りの避け所を滅ぼし、水は隠れ場を押し倒す」。
And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.
And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them. (Sheol h7585)
19 それが過ぎるごとに、あなたがたを捕える。それは朝な朝な過ぎ、昼も夜も過ぎるからだ。このおとずれを聞きわきまえることは、全くの恐れである。
Whenever they come through they will overtake you; for they will come through morning after morning, by day and by night: and the news will be nothing but fear.
20 床が短くて身を伸べることができず、かける夜具が狭くて身をおおうことができないからだ。
For the bed is not long enough for a man to be stretched out on: and the cover is not wide enough for him to be covered with.
21 主はペラジム山で立たれたように立ちあがり、ギベオンの谷で憤られたように憤られて、その行いをなされる。その行いは類のないものである。またそのわざをなされる。そのわざは異なったものである。
For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work — strange is his work; and give effect to his act — unnatural is his act.
22 それゆえ、あなたがたはあざけってはならない。さもないと、あなたがたのなわめは、きびしくなる。わたしは主なる万軍の神から全地の上に臨む滅びの宣言を聞いたからである。
And now, take care that you do not make sport of him, or your bands will be made strong; for I have had word from the Lord, the Lord of armies, of an end, of a complete end, which is to come on all the land.
23 あなたがたは耳を傾けて、わが声を聞くがよい。心してわが言葉を聞くがよい。
Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.
24 種をまくために耕す者は絶えず耕すだろうか。彼は絶えずその地をひらき、まぐわをもって土をならすだろうか。
Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?
25 地のおもてを平らにしたならば、いのんどをまき、クミンをまき、小麦をうねに植え、大麦を定めた所に植え、スペルト麦をその境に植えないだろうか。
When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?
26 これは彼の神が正しく、彼を導き教えられるからである。
For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.
27 いのんどは麦こき板でこかない、クミンはその上に車輪をころがさない。いのんどを打つには棒を用い、クミンを打つにはさおを用いる。
For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.
28 人はパン用の麦を打つとき砕くだろうか、否、それが砕けるまでいつまでも打つことをしない。馬をもってその上に車輪を引かせるとき、それを砕くことをしない。
Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.
29 これもまた万軍の主から出ることである。その計りごとは驚くべく、その知恵はすぐれている。
This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.
