Isaiah 58

1 Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

「大いに呼ばわって声を惜しむな。あなたの声をラッパのようにあげ、わが民にそのとがを告げ、ヤコブの家にその罪を告げ示せ。

2 Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

彼らは日々わたしを尋ね求め、義を行い、神のおきてを捨てない国民のように、わが道を知ることを喜ぶ。彼らは正しいさばきをわたしに求め、神に近づくことを喜ぶ。

3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

彼らは言う、『われわれが断食したのに、なぜ、ごらんにならないのか。われわれがおのれを苦しめたのに、なぜ、ごぞんじないのか』と。見よ、あなたがたの断食の日には、おのが楽しみを求め、その働き人をことごとくしえたげる。

4 If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.

見よ、あなたがたの断食するのは、ただ争いと、いさかいのため、また悪のこぶしをもって人を打つためだ。きょう、あなたがたのなす断食は、その声を上に聞えさせるものではない。

5 Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

このようなものは、わたしの選ぶ断食であろうか。人がおのれを苦しめる日であろうか。そのこうべを葦のように伏せ、荒布と灰とをその下に敷くことであろうか。あなたは、これを断食ととなえ、主に受けいれられる日と、となえるであろうか。

6 Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

わたしが選ぶところの断食は、悪のなわをほどき、くびきのひもを解き、しえたげられる者を放ち去らせ、すべてのくびきを折るなどの事ではないか。

7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

また飢えた者に、あなたのパンを分け与え、さすらえる貧しい者を、あなたの家に入れ、裸の者を見て、これを着せ、自分の骨肉に身を隠さないなどの事ではないか。

8 Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.

そうすれば、あなたの光が暁のようにあらわれ出て、あなたは、すみやかにいやされ、あなたの義はあなたの前に行き、主の栄光はあなたのしんがりとなる。

9 Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

また、あなたが呼ぶとき、主は答えられ、あなたが叫ぶとき、『わたしはここにおる』と言われる。もし、あなたの中からくびきを除き、指をさすこと、悪い事を語ることを除き、

10 And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

飢えた者にあなたのパンを施し、苦しむ者の願いを満ち足らせるならば、あなたの光は暗きに輝き、あなたのやみは真昼のようになる。

11 And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.

主は常にあなたを導き、良き物をもってあなたの願いを満ち足らせ、あなたの骨を強くされる。あなたは潤った園のように、水の絶えない泉のようになる。

12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

あなたの子らは久しく荒れすたれたる所を興し、あなたは代々やぶれた基を立て、人はあなたを『破れを繕う者』と呼び、『市街を繕って住むべき所となす者』と呼ぶようになる。

13 If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;

もし安息日にあなたの足をとどめ、わが聖日にあなたの楽しみをなさず、安息日を喜びの日と呼び、主の聖日を尊ぶべき日ととなえ、これを尊んで、おのが道を行わず、おのが楽しみを求めず、むなしい言葉を語らないならば、

14 Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.

その時あなたは主によって喜びを得、わたしは、あなたに地の高い所を乗り通らせ、あなたの先祖ヤコブの嗣業をもって、あなたを養う」。これは主の口から語られたものである。