イザヤ書 59
1 見よ、主の手が短くて、救い得ないのではない。その耳が鈍くて聞き得ないのでもない。
Behold, the hand of the Lord has not been shortened, so that it cannot save, and his ear has not been blocked, so that it cannot hear.
2 ただ、あなたがたの不義があなたがたと、あなたがたの神との間を隔てたのだ。またあなたがたの罪が主の顔をおおったために、お聞きにならないのだ。
But your iniquities have made a division between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you, so that he would not hear.
3 あなたがたの手は血で汚れ、あなたがたの指は不義で汚れ、あなたがたのくちびるは偽りを語り、あなたがたの舌は悪をささやき、
For your hands have been polluted by blood, and your fingers by iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue utters iniquity.
4 ひとりも正義をもって訴え、真実をもって論争する者がない。彼らはむなしきことを頼み、偽りを語り、害悪をはらみ、不義を産む。
There is no one who calls for justice, and there is no one who judges truly. For they trust in nothing, and they speak emptiness. They have conceived hardship, and they have given birth to iniquity.
5 彼らはまむしの卵をかえし、くもの巣を織る。その卵を食べる者は死ぬ。卵が踏まれると破れて毒蛇を出す。
They have ruptured the eggs of asps, and they have woven the webs of spiders. Whoever will eat of their eggs will die. For what has been incubated will hatch into a king snake.
6 その織る物は着物とならない。その造る物をもって身をおおうことができない。彼のわざは不義のわざであり、彼らの手には暴虐の行いがある。
Their weavings will not be for clothing, nor will they cover themselves with their handiwork. Their works are useless things, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.
7 彼らの足は悪に走り、罪のない血を流すことに速い。彼らの思いは不義の思いであり、荒廃と滅亡とがその道にある。
Their feet run to evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are useless thoughts; devastation and destruction are in their ways.
8 彼らは平和の道を知らず、その行く道には公平がない。彼らはその道を曲げた。すべてこれを歩む者は平和を知らない。
They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps. Their paths have become crooked for them. Anyone who treads in them knows no peace.
9 それゆえ、公平は遠くわれわれを離れ、正義はわれわれに追いつかない。われわれは光を望んでも、暗きを見、輝きを望んでも、やみを行く。
Because of this, judgment is far from us, and justice will not take hold of us. We waited for light, and behold, darkness; we waited for brightness, and we walked in darkness.
10 われわれは盲人のように、かきを手さぐりゆき、目のない者のように手さぐりゆき、真昼でも、たそがれのようにつまずき、強壮な者の中にあっても死人のようだ。
We groped for the wall, like one who is blind, and we felt our way, like one without eyes. We stumbled at midday, as if in darkness; and in darkness, as if in death.
11 われわれは皆くまのようにほえ、はとのようにいたくうめき、公平を望んでも、きたらず、救を望んでも、遠くわれわれを離れ去る。
We will all roar like bears, and we will sigh like despondent doves. We hoped for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, and it is far from us.
12 われわれのとがは、あなたの前に多く、罪は、われわれを訴えて、あかしをなし、とがは、われわれと共にあり、不義は、われわれがこれを知る。
For our iniquities have been multiplied in your sight, and our sins have answered us. For our wickedness is with us, and we have acknowledged our iniquities:
13 われわれは、そむいて主をいなみ、退いて、われわれの神に従わず、しえたげと、そむきとを語り、偽りの言葉を心にはらんで、それを言いあらわす。
sinning and lying against the Lord. And we have turned away, not so as to go after our God, and so that we were speaking calumny and transgression. We have conceived, and spoken from the heart, words of falsehood.
14 公平はうしろに退けられ、正義ははるかに立つ。それは、真実は広場に倒れ、正直は、はいることができないからである。
And judgment has been turned backwards, and justice has stood far away. For truth has fallen down in the street, and fairness was not able to enter.
15 真実は欠けてなく、悪を離れる者はかすめ奪われる。主はこれを見て、公平がなかったことを喜ばれなかった。
And the truth has gone into oblivion. And he who withdraws from evil endures plunder. And the Lord saw this, and it seemed evil in his eyes. For there is no judgment.
16 主は人のないのを見られ、仲に立つ者のないのをあやしまれた。それゆえ、ご自分のかいなをもって、勝利を得、その義をもって、おのれをささえられた。
And he saw that there was no good man. And he was astonished that there was no one to meet him. And his own arm brought salvation to him, and his own justice strengthened him.
17 主は義を胸当としてまとい、救のかぶとをその頭にいただき、報復の衣をまとって着物とし、熱心を外套として身を包まれた。
He clothed himself with justice as with a breastplate, and with a helmet of salvation upon his head. He put on the vestments of vengeance, and he was covered with zeal as with a cloak.
18 主は彼らの行いにしたがって報いをなし、あだにむかって怒り、敵にむかって報いをなし、海沿いの国々にむかって報いをされる。
This was for vindication, as a repayment of indignation to his adversaries, and as a sudden reversal for his enemies. He will repay the islands in their turn.
19 こうして、人々は西の方から主の名を恐れ、日の出る方からその栄光を恐れる。主は、せき止めた川を、そのいぶきで押し流すように、こられるからである。
And those from the west will fear the name of the Lord, and those from the rising of the sun will fear his glory, when he arrives like a violent river, which the Spirit of the Lord urges on.
20 主は言われる、「主は、あがなう者としてシオンにきたり、ヤコブのうちの、とがを離れる者に至る」と。
And the Redeemer will arrive in Zion, and to those who return from the iniquity within Jacob, says the Lord.
21 主は言われる、「わたしが彼らと立てる契約はこれである。あなたの上にあるわが霊、あなたの口においたわが言葉は、今から後とこしえに、あなたの口から、あなたの子らの口から、あなたの子らの子の口から離れることはない」と。
This is my pact with them, says the Lord. My Spirit is within you, and my words, which I have put in your mouth, will not withdraw from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring’s offspring, says the Lord, from this moment, and even forever.
