Esias 18

1 Woe to you, you wings of the land of ships, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.

唉エテオピアの河の彼方なるさやさやと羽音のきこゆる地

2 He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.

この地蒹のふねを水にうかべ海路より使者をつかはさんとてその使者にいへらく 疾走る使よなんぢら河々の流のわかるる國にゆけ丈たかく肌なめらかなる 始めより今にいたるまで懼るべく繩もてはかり人を踐にじる民にゆけ

3 Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country; their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet.

すべて世にをるもの地にすむものよ 山のうへに旗のたつとき汝等これを見ラッパの鳴響くときなんぢら之をきけ

4 For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

そはヱホバわれに如此いひ給へりいはく 空はれわたり日てり收穫の熱むしてつゆけき雲のたるる間 われわが居所にしづかに居てながめん

5 Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning-hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;

收穫のまへにその芽またく生その花ぶだうとなりて熟せんとするとき かれ鎌をもて蔓をかり枝をきり去ん

6 And he shall leave [them] together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.

斯てみな山のたけきとりと地の獸とになげあたへらるべし 猛鳥そのうへにて夏をすごし地のけものその上にて冬をわたらん

7 In that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people afflicted and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and for ever; a nation hoping and [yet] trodden down, which is in a part of a river of his land, to the place where is the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Sion.

そのとき河々の流のわかるる國の丈たかく肌なめらかなる 始めより今にいたるまで懼るべく繩もてはかり人をふみにじる民より 萬軍のヱホバにささぐる禮物をたづさへて 萬軍のヱホバの聖名のところシオンの山にきたるべし