Isaiah 53

1 (Who will believe what we will tell them [about God’s servant]?/Hardly anyone will believe what we will tell them [about God’s servant].) [RHQ] (Who will see what Yahweh does by his great power?/Very few people will see what Yahweh does by his great power.) [MTY, RHQ]

われらが宣るところを信ぜしものは誰ぞや ヱホバの手はたれにあらはれしや

2 While God watches, his servant will grow up [appearing/seeming to be very insignificant/unimportant], like a weak young plant that shoots up from a root [of a tree that is growing] in dry ground. There will be nothing beautiful or majestic about him, nothing that would cause us to want to be with him.

かれは主のまへに芽えのごとく 燥きたる土よりいづる樹株のごとくそだちたり われらが見るべきうるはしき容なく うつくしき貌はなく われらがしたふべき艶色なし

3 People will despise and reject him. {He will be despised and rejected.} He will endure much pain, and he will suffer much. [Because his face will be very disfigured], people will not [want to] look at him; people will despise him and think that he is not worth paying any attention to.

かれは侮られて人にすてられ 悲哀の人にして病患をしれり また面をおほひて避ることをせらるる者のごとく侮られたり われらも彼をたふとまざりき

4 But he will be [punished for] the sicknesses [of our souls]; he will endure great pain for us. But we will think that he is being punished by God, afflicted/punished [for his own sins].

まことに彼はわれらの病患をおひ我儕のかなしみを擔へり 然るにわれら思へらく彼はせめられ神にうたれ苦しめらるるなりと

5 But his body will be bruised because of the evil things that we did, wounded because of our sins. He will be beaten in order that things will go well for our [souls]; and because he will be whipped, [our souls] can be healed.

彼はわれらの愆のために傷けられ われらの不義のために碎かれ みづから懲罰をうけてわれらに平安をあたふ そのうたれし痍によりてわれらは癒されたり

6 All of us have gone away [from God] like [SIM] sheep who have strayed away [from their shepherd]. We have turned away [from doing the things that God wants in order] to do the things that we wanted [MET]. [We deserve to be punished, but] Yahweh will punish him instead of punishing us for all of our sins.

われらはみな羊のごとく迷ひておのおの己が道にむかひゆけり 然るにヱホバはわれら凡てのものの不義をかれのうへに置たまへり

7 He will be abused and caused to suffer, but he will not say anything [to complain]. They will lead him [to where they will execute him], [like they lead] a lamb to where it will be slaughtered. And like a sheep does not (bleat/make any noise) when the shearer [cuts off its wool], he will not say anything [MTY] [to defend himself when he is killed].

彼はくるしめらるれどもみづから謙だりて口をひらかず 屠場にひかるる羔羊の如く毛をきる者のまへにもだす羊の如くしてその口をひらかざりき

8 After he is arrested and put on trial, he will be taken away [and executed]. And no one [RHQ] will be able to talk about his descendants, because he will die [EUP] [without being married and having children]. He will be (afflicted/caused to suffer) for the wrong things that we have done.

かれは虐待と審判とによりて取去れたり その代の人のうち誰か彼が活るものの地より絶れしことを思ひたりしや 彼はわが民のとがの爲にうたれしなり

9 Although he will never have done any wrong or deceived [MTY] anyone, people will plan to bury his corpse where wicked people are buried, but instead, a rich man will [bury him] after he dies.

その墓はあしき者とともに設けられたれど 死るときは富るものとともになれり かれは暴をおこなはずその口には虚僞なかりき

10 But it will be Yahweh’s will that he be afflicted and caused to suffer. And [when he dies], Yahweh will cause him to be an offering to remove the guilt of sinners. But later he will have many [spiritual] children, and he will live (a long time/forever) after he [dies and] becomes alive [again], and he [MTY] will accomplish everything that Yahweh has planned.

されどヱホバはかれを碎くことをよろこびて之をなやましたまへり 斯てかれの靈魂とがの献物をなすにいたらば彼その末をみるを得その日は永からん かつヱホバの悦び給ふことは彼の手によりて榮ゆべし

11 When he sees all that he will accomplish because of his suffering, he will be satisfied. And because of what will have happened to him, Yahweh’s righteous servant will cause the guilt of many people to be ended, because he will remove [the guilt for] their sins.

かれは己がたましひの煩勞をみて心たらはん わが義しき僕はその知識によりておほくの人を義とし又かれらの不義をおはん

12 So Yahweh will consider him to be one of the truly great people; he will [be like a king who] divides up [among his soldiers] the (spoils/things they took from their enemies after defeating them) [MET], because he will sacrifice himself and die. [Even though people] will consider him to be a sinner, he will remove the guilt of many [people], and he will intercede/pray that those who have done things that are wrong [will be forgiven].

このゆゑに我かれをして大なるものとともに物をわかち取しめん かれは強きものとともに掠物をわかちとるべし 彼はおのが靈魂をかたぶけて死にいたらしめ愆あるものとともに數へられたればなり 彼はおほくの人の罪をおひ愆あるものの爲にとりなしをなせり