Esias 42
1 Jacob is my servant, I will help him: Israel is my chosen, my soul has accepted him; I have put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
わたしの支持するわがしもべ、わたしの喜ぶわが選び人を見よ。わたしはわが霊を彼に与えた。彼はもろもろの国びとに道をしめす。
2 He shall not cry, nor lift up [his voice], nor shall his voice be heard without.
彼は叫ぶことなく、声をあげることなく、その声をちまたに聞えさせず、
3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; but he shall bring forth judgment to truth.
また傷ついた葦を折ることなく、ほのぐらい灯心を消すことなく、真実をもって道をしめす。
4 He shall shine out, and shall not be discouraged, until he have set judgment on the earth: and in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
彼は衰えず、落胆せず、ついに道を地に確立する。海沿いの国々はその教を待ち望む。
5 Thus says the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that tread on it:
天を創造してこれをのべ、地とそれに生ずるものをひらき、その上の民に息を与え、その中を歩む者に霊を与えられる主なる神はこう言われる、
6 I the Lord God have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will strengthen you: and I have given you for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles:
「主なるわたしは正義をもってあなたを召した。わたしはあなたの手をとり、あなたを守った。わたしはあなたを民の契約とし、もろもろの国びとの光として与え、
7 to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison-house.
盲人の目を開き、囚人を地下の獄屋から出し、暗きに座する者を獄屋から出させる。
8 I am the Lord God: that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praises to graven images.
わたしは主である、これがわたしの名である。わたしはわが栄光をほかの者に与えない。また、わが誉を刻んだ像に与えない。
9 Behold, the ancient things have come to pass, and [so will] the new things which I tell you: yes, before I tell [them] they are made known to you.
見よ、さきに預言した事は起った。わたしは新しい事を告げよう。その事がまだ起らない前に、わたしはまず、あなたがたに知らせよう」。
10 Sing a new hymn to the Lord: you [who are] his dominion, glorify his name from the end of the earth: you that go down to the sea, and sail upon it; the islands, and they that dwell in them.
主にむかって新しき歌をうたえ。地の果から主をほめたたえよ。海とその中に満ちるもの、海沿いの国々とそれに住む者とは鳴りどよめ。
11 Rejoice, you wilderness, and the villages thereof, the hamlets, and the dwellers in Kedar: the inhabitants of the rock shall rejoice, they shall shout from the top of the mountains.
荒野とその中のもろもろの町と、ケダルびとの住むもろもろの村里は声をあげよ。セラの民は喜びうたえ。山の頂から呼ばわり叫べ。
12 They shall give glory to God, [and] shall proclaim his praises in the islands.
栄光を主に帰し、その誉を海沿いの国々で語り告げよ。
13 The Lord God of hosts shall go forth, and crush the war: he shall stir up jealousy, and shall shout mightily against his enemies.
主は勇士のように出て行き、いくさ人のように熱心を起し、ときの声をあげて呼ばわり、その敵にむかって大能をあらわされる。
14 I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear: I have endured like a travailing [woman]: I will [now] amaze and wither at once.
わたしは久しく声を出さず、黙して、おのれをおさえていた。今わたしは子を産もうとする女のように叫ぶ。わたしの息は切れ、かつあえぐ。
15 I will make desolate mountains and hills, and will dry up all their grass; and I will make the rivers islands, and dry up the pools.
わたしは山と丘とを荒し、すべての草を枯らし、もろもろの川を島とし、もろもろの池をからす。
16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known: I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.
わたしは目しいを彼らのまだ知らない大路に行かせ、まだ知らない道に導き、暗きをその前に光とし、高低のある所を平らにする。わたしはこれらの事をおこなって彼らを捨てない。
17 But they are turned back: be you utterly ashamed that trust in graven [images], who say to the molten [images], You are our gods.
刻んだ偶像に頼み、鋳た偶像にむかって「あなたがたは、われわれの神である」と言う者は退けられて、大いに恥をかく。
18 Hear, you deaf, and look up, you blind, to see.
耳しいよ、聞け。目しいよ、目を注いで見よ。
19 And who is blind, but my servants? and deaf, but they that rule over them? yes, the servants of God have been made blind.
だれか、わがしもべのほかに目しいがあるか。だれか、わがつかわす使者のような耳しいがあるか。だれか、わが献身者のような目しいがあるか。だれか、主のしもべのような目しいがあるか。
20 You have often seen, and have not taken heed; [your] ears have been opened, and you have not heard.
彼は多くの事を見ても認めず、耳を開いても聞かない。
21 The Lord God has taken counsel that he might be justified, and might magnify [his] praise.
主はおのれの義のために、その教を大いなるものとし、かつ光栄あるものとすることを喜ばれた。
22 And I saw, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for [there is] a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.
ところが、この民はかすめられ、奪われて、みな穴の中に捕われ、獄屋の中に閉じこめられた。彼らはかすめられても助ける者がなく、物を奪われても「もどせ」と言う者もない。
23 Who [is there] among you that will give ear to these things? listen you to the things which are coming to pass.
あなたがたのうち、だれがこの事に耳を傾けるだろうか、だれが心をもちいて後のためにこれを聞くだろうか。
24 For what did he give to Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God [do it] against whom they sinned? [and] they would not walk in his ways, nor listen to his law.
ヤコブを奪わせた者はだれか。かすめる者にイスラエルをわたした者はだれか。これは主ではないか。われわれは主にむかって罪を犯し、その道に歩むことを好まず、またその教に従うことを好まなかった。
25 So he brought upon them the fury of his wrath; and the war, and those that burnt round about them, prevailed against them; yet no one of them knew [it], neither did they lay [it] to heart.
それゆえ、主は激しい怒りと、猛烈な戦いを彼らに臨ませられた。それが火のように周囲に燃えても、彼らは悟らず、彼らを焼いても、心にとめなかった。
