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。
Woe to the crown of arrogance, to the inebriated of Ephraim, and to the falling flower, the glory of his exultation, to those who were at the top of the very fat valley, staggering from wine.
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。
Behold, the Lord is powerful and steadfast, like a storm of hail, like a crushing whirlwind, like the force of many waters, inundating, sent forth over a spacious land.
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 arrogant crown of the inebriated of Ephraim will be trampled underfoot.
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 falling flower, the glory of his exultation, who is at the summit of the fat valley, will be like a premature fruit before the ripeness of autumn, which, when the onlooker beholds it, as soon he takes it in his hand, he will devour 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, the Lord of hosts will be the crown of glory and the wreath of exultation for the remnant 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 he will be the spirit of judgment for those who sit in judgment, and the strength of those who return from war to the gates.
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。
Yet truly, these also have been ignorant due to wine, and they have gone astray due to inebriation. The priest and the prophet have been ignorant because of inebriation. They have been absorbed by wine. They have staggered in drunkenness. They have not known the One who sees. They have been ignorant of judgment.
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 have been filled with vomit and filth, so much so that there was no place left.
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 teach knowledge? And to whom will he grant an understanding of what is heard? To those who have been weaned from the milk, who have been pulled away from the breasts.
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」。
So then: command, and command again; command, and command again; expect, and expect again; a little here, and a little there.
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。
For with the speech of lips and with a different language, he will speak 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。
He said to them: “This is my rest. Refresh the weary,” and, “This is my refreshment.” And yet they were unwilling to listen.
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。
And so, the word of the Lord to them will be: “Command, and command again; command, and command again; expect, and expect again; a little here, and a little there,” so that they may go forward and fall backward, and so that they may be broken and ensnared and captured.
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。
Because of this, listen to the word of the Lord, you mocking men, who lord it over my people who are at 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)
For you have said: “We struck a deal with death, and we formed a pact with Hell. When the inundating scourge passes through, it will not overwhelm us. For we have placed our hope in lies, and we are protected by what is false.” (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 reason, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will set a stone within the foundations of Zion, a tested stone, a cornerstone, a precious stone, which has been established in the foundation: whoever trusts in him need not hurry.
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 establish judgment in weights, and justice in measures. And a hailstorm will overturn hope in what is false; and waters will inundate its protection.
And your deal with death will be abolished, and your pact with Hell will not stand. When the inundating scourge passes through, you will be trampled down by it. (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 it passes through, it will take you away. For, at first light of morning, it will pass through, in the day and in the night, and vexation alone will make you understand what you hear.
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 has been narrowed, so much so that one alone would fall out, and the short blanket is not able to cover two.
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 stand, just as at the mountain of divisions. He will be angry, just as in the valley which is in Gibeon, so that he may accomplish his work, his strange work, so that he may complete his work, his work which is foreign even to him.
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, do not be willing to mock, lest your chains be tightened. For I have heard, from the Lord, the God of hosts, about the consummation and the abridgement concerning the entire earth.
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。
Pay close attention, and listen to my voice! Attend and hear my eloquence!
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。
Would the plowman, after plowing all day so that he may sow, instead cut open and hoe his soil?
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。
Will he not, when he has made the surface level, sow coriander, and scatter cumin, and plant wheat in rows, and barley, and millet, and vetch in their places?
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 he will be instructed in judgment; his God will teach him.
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 coriander cannot be threshed with a saw, and a cartwheel cannot revolve over cumin. Instead, coriander is shaken out with a stick, and cumin with a staff.
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。
But grain for bread must be crushed. Truly, the thresher cannot thresh it unceasingly, and the cartwheel can neither disrupt it, nor break it with its surface.
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。
And this has gone forth from the Lord, the God of hosts, so that he may accomplish his miraculous plan and magnify justice.
