Isaiah 29
1 [This is a message from Yahweh: ] Terrible things will happen to Jerusalem, the city where [King] David lived. You people continue to celebrate your festivals each year.
ああ、アリエルよ、アリエルよ、ダビデが営をかまえた町よ、年に年を加え、祭をめぐりこさせよ。
2 But I will cause you to experience a great disaster, [and when that happens], people will weep and lament [very much]. Your city will become like [MET] an altar [to me] [where people are burned as sacrifices].
その時わたしはアリエルを悩ます。そこには悲しみと嘆きとがあって、アリエルのようなものとなる。
3 I will cause your enemies [to come to your city]; they will surround it by [building] towers and putting in place other things with which to attack you.
わたしはあなたのまわりに営を構え、やぐらをもってあなたを囲み、塁を築いてあなたを攻める。
4 Then you will talk [as though you were] buried deep in the ground [DOU]; it will sound like someone whispering from under the ground, like [SIM] a ghost speaking from a grave.
その時あなたは深い地の中から物言い、低いちりの中から言葉を出す。あなたの声は亡霊の声のように地から出、あなたの言葉はちりの中から、さえずるようである。
5 But, suddenly your enemies will be blown away like dust; their armies will disappear like [SIM] chaff that is blown away [by the wind]. [It will happen] very suddenly.
しかしあなたのあだの群れは細かなちりのようになり、あらぶる者の群れは吹き去られるもみがらのようになる。また、にわかに、またたくまに、この事がある。
6 The Commander of the armies of angels will come [to help you] with thunder and an earthquake and a very loud noise, with a strong wind and a big storm and a fire that will burn up everything.
すなわち万軍の主は雷、地震、大いなる叫び、つむじ風、暴風および焼きつくす火の炎をもって臨まれる。
7 [Then] the armies of all the nations that will be attacking Jerusalem will quickly disappear like a dream in the night [DOU]. Those who will be attacking Jerusalem will suddenly vanish/disappear.
そしてアリエルを攻めて戦う国々の群れ、すなわちアリエルとその城を攻めて戦い、これを悩ます者はみな夢のように、夜の幻のようになる。
8 People who are asleep dream about eating food, [but] when they wake up, they are still hungry. People who are thirsty dream about drinking something, [but] when they wake up they are still thirsty. It will be like that when your enemies come to attack Zion Hill; [they will dream about conquering you, but when they wake up, ] [they will realize that they have not succeeded].
飢えた者が食べることを夢みても、さめると、その飢えがいえないように、あるいは、かわいた者が飲むことを夢みても、さめると、疲れてそのかわきがとまらないように、シオンの山を攻めて戦う国々の群れもそのようになる。
9 You [people of Jerusalem], be amazed and surprised [about this] [IRO]! Do not believe [what I have said] [SAR]! And continue to be blind [IRO] [about what Yahweh is doing]. You are stupid, but it is not because you have drunk a lot of wine. You stagger, but not from drinking alcoholic drinks.
あなたがたは知覚を失って気が遠くなれ、目がくらんで盲となれ。あなたがたは酔っていよ、しかし酒のゆえではない、よろめけ、しかし濃き酒のゆえではない。
10 Because Yahweh has prevented the prophets [DOU] from understanding [and telling you his messages], [it is as though] he has caused you to be fast/deeply asleep.
主が深い眠りの霊をあなたがたの上にそそぎ、あなたがたの目である預言者を閉じこめ、あなたがたの頭である先見者をおおわれたからである。
11 [Yahweh gave me] this vision; [but] for you, it is only words on a scroll that is sealed shut. If you give it to those who can read [and request that they read it], they will say, “We cannot read it because the scroll is sealed.”
それゆえ、このすべての幻は、あなたがたには封じた書物の言葉のようになり、人々はこれを読むことのできる者にわたして、「これを読んでください」と言えば、「これは封じてあるから読むことができない」と彼は言う。
12 When you give it to [others] who cannot read, they will say, “[We cannot read it because] we do not know how to read.”
またその書物を読むことのできない者にわたして、「これを読んでください」と言えば、「読むことはできない」と彼は言う。
13 [So] the Lord says, “These people say that they belong to me. They honor me by what they say [MTY], but they do not think [IDM] about what I [desire]. When they worship me, all they do is recite rules that people have made and that they have memorized.
主は言われた、「この民は口をもってわたしに近づき、くちびるをもってわたしを敬うけれども、その心はわたしから遠く離れ、彼らのわたしをかしこみ恐れるのは、そらで覚えた人の戒めによるのである。
14 Therefore, again I will do something to amaze these people; I will perform many miracles. And [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are wise are not really wise, and [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are intelligent are not really intelligent.
それゆえ、見よ、わたしはこの民に、再び驚くべきわざを行う、それは不思議な驚くべきわざである。彼らのうちの賢い人の知恵は滅び、さとい人の知識は隠される」。
15 Terrible things will happen to those who try to conceal from me, Yahweh, the [evil] things that they plan to do; they do those things in the darkness and they think, ‘Yahweh certainly cannot [RHQ] see us; he cannot [RHQ] know what we are doing!’
わざわいなるかな、おのが計りごとを主に深く隠す者。彼らは暗い中でわざを行い、「だれがわれわれを見るか、だれがわれわれのことを知るか」と言う。
16 They are extremely foolish! [They act as though] they were the potters and I was the clay! Something that was created should certainly never [RHQ] say to the one who made it, ‘You did not make me!’ A jar should never say, ‘The potter who made me did not know what he was doing!’”
あなたがたは転倒して考えている。陶器師は粘土と同じものに思われるだろうか。造られた物はそれを造った者について、「彼はわたしを造らなかった」と言い、形造られた物は形造った者について、「彼は知恵がない」と言うことができようか。
17 Soon [the forests in] Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.
しばらくしてレバノンは変って肥えた畑となり、肥えた畑は林のように思われる時が来るではないか。
18 At that time, deaf people will [be able to hear]; [they will be able to] hear when someone reads from a book; and blind people will [be able to see]; [they will be able to] see things when it is gloomy and [even] when it is dark.
その日、耳しいは書物の言葉を聞き、目しいの目はその暗やみから、見ることができる。
19 Yahweh will enable humble people to be very joyful again. Poor people will rejoice about what the Holy One of Israel [has done].
柔和な者は主によって新たなる喜びを得、人のなかの貧しい者はイスラエルの聖者によって楽しみを得る。
20 There will be no more people who ridicule [others] and no more arrogant people. And those who plan to do evil things will be executed.
あらぶる者は絶え、あざける者はうせ、悪を行おうと、おりをうかがう者は、ことごとく断ち滅ぼされるからである。
21 Those who testify falsely in order to persuade judges to punish innocent people will vanish/disappear. Similar things will happen to those who by lying in court [persuade judges to] make unjust decisions.
彼らは言葉によって人を罪に定め、町の門でいさめる者をわなにおとしいれ、むなしい言葉をかまえて正しい者をしりぞける。
22 That is why Yahweh, who rescued Abraham, says about the people of Israel, “My people will no longer be ashamed; no longer will they show on their faces that they are ashamed.
それゆえ、昔アブラハムをあがなわれた主は、ヤコブの家についてこう言われる、「ヤコブは、もはやはずかしめを受けず、その顔は、もはや色を失うことはない。
23 When they see that I have blessed them by giving them many children and doing many other things for them, they will realize that I am the Holy One of Israel, and they will revere me, the God to whom they, the descendants of Jacob, belong.
彼の子孫が、その中にわが手のわざを見るとき、彼らはわが名を聖とし、ヤコブの聖者を聖として、イスラエルの神を恐れる。
24 When that happens, those who have not been able to think well will think clearly, and those who complain [about what I am doing] will accept what I am teaching them.”
心のあやまれる者も、悟りを得、つぶやく者も教をうける」。
