Isaiah 8
1 Then Yahweh said to me, “Make a large signboard. And write clearly on it, ‘Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz’ [which means ‘quickly (plunder/take by force) and steal everything’].”
ヱホバ我にいひたまひけるは一の大なる牌をとり そのうへに平常の文字にてマヘル シャラル ハシ バズと録せ
2 [So] I requested Uriah the [Supreme] Priest and Jeberekiah’s son Zechariah, men who were both honest/trustworthy witnesses, to watch me as I was doing that.
われ信實の證者なる祭司ウリヤおよびエベレキヤの子ゼカリヤをもてその證をなさしむ
3 Then I had sex with [EUP] [my wife, who was] a prophetess, and she became pregnant and [then] gave birth to a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Give him the name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz (which means ‘suddenly attacked, quickly conquered’),
われ預言者の妻にちかづきしとき彼はらみて子をうみければ ヱホバ我にいひたまはく その名をマヘル シャラル ハシ バズと稱へよ
4 because before he is old enough to say ‘papa’ or ‘mama’, the King of Assyria will [come with his army and] quickly take away all the valuable things in Damascus and in Samaria.”
そはこの子いまだ我が父わが母とよぶことを知らざるうちに ダマスコの富とサマリヤの財寳はうばはれてアツスリヤ王のまへに到るべければなり
5 Yahweh spoke to me again and said, “[Tell the people of Judah, ]
ヱホバまた重て我につげたまへり云く
6 ‘[I have taken good care of] you people, but you have rejected that, [thinking that] my help was very little, like [MET] the little canal through which water flows from the Gihon Spring into Jerusalem. Instead, you have been happy [to request help from] King Rezin and King Pekah.
この民はゆるやかに流るるシロアの水をすててレヂンとレマリヤの子とをよろこぶ
7 Therefore, I will cause the people of Judah to be attacked by [the powerful army of] the King of Assyria, which will be [like] a great flood from the [Euphrates] River. Their soldiers will [be everywhere in your country, like] a river that overflows all its banks.
此によりて主はいきほひ猛くみなぎりわたる大河の水をかれらのうへに堰入たまはん 是はアツスリヤ王とそのもろもろの威勢とにして 百の支流にはびこり もろもろの岸をこえ
8 Those soldiers will go all over Judah— [like a river whose water] [MET] rises as high as a person’s neck. Their army will spread over the land [quickly], like an eagle, and they will cover your entire land! But I will be with you!’”
ユダにながれいり 溢れひろごりてその項にまで及ばん インマヌエルよ そののぶる翼はあまねくなんぢの地にみちわたらん
9 Listen, all you [people in] distant countries! [You can] prepare to attack Judah. [You can] prepare [for battle, and shout your] war-cries, but your [armies will] be crushed/shattered!
もろもろの民よ さばめき騒げなんぢら摧かるべし 遠きくにぐにの者よ きけ 腰におびせよ 汝等くだかるべし 腰に帶せよ なんぢら摧かるべし
10 [You can] prepare for what you will do [to attack Judah], but what you plan to do will not happen! You will not succeed, because God is with us!
なんぢら互にはかれ つひに徒勞ならん なんぢら言をいだせ遂におこなはれじ そは神われらとともに在せばなり
11 Yahweh strongly warned me [MTY] not to act like the [other] people in Judah did. He said to me,
ヱホバつよき手をもて此如われに示し この民の路にあゆまざらんことを我にさとして言給はく
12 “Do not say that everything that people do is conspiring/rebelling [against the government], like [other] people say, and do not (be afraid of/worry about) the things that other people are afraid of.
此民のすべて叛逆ととなふるところの者をなんぢら叛逆ととなふるなかれ 彼等のおそるるところを汝等おそるるなかれ慴くなかれ
13 [I, ] the Commander of the armies of angels, am the one you should consider to be holy. And I am the one you should fear, the one you should revere.
なんぢらはただ萬軍のヱホバを聖としてこれを畏みこれを恐るべし
14 I will protect you(sg). [But as for] the [other] people [MTY] in Israel and Judah, I will be [like] [MET] a stone that causes people to stumble, a rock that causes them to fall down. [And as for] the people of Jerusalem, I will be [like] [MET] a trap or a snare [DOU].
然らばヱホバはきよき避所となりたまはん 然どイスラエルの兩の家には躓く石となり妨ぐる磐とならん ヱルサレムの民には網罟となり機濫とならん
15 Many [people] will stumble and fall down and never get up again. They will experience great troubles; they will be captured [by their enemies].”
おほくの人々これによりて蹶きかつ仆れやぶれ 網せられまた捕へらるべし
16 [So, I say to you who are my disciples], seal up this scroll on which I have written the messages that God has given to me, and give his instructions to [others] who have accompanied me.
證詞をつかね律法をわが弟子のうちに封べし
17 I will wait to see what Yahweh [will do]. He has rejected the descendants [MTY] of Jacob, but I will confidently expect him to help me.
いま面をおほひてヤコブの家をかへりみ給はずといへども 我そのヱホバを待そのヱホバを望みまつらん
18 I and the children that Yahweh has given to me are [like] signs to warn [the people of] Israel; we are warnings from the Commander of the armies of angels the one who lives [in his temple] on Zion Hill [in Jerusalem].
視よわれとヱホバが我にたまひたる子輩とはイスラエルのうちの豫兆なり奇しき標なり 此はシオンの山にいます萬軍のヱホバの與へたまふ所なり
19 Some people may urge you(pl) to (consult/go and talk with) those who talk with the spirits of dead people or with those who say that they receive messages from those spirits. They whisper and mutter [about what we should do in the future]. But God is [RHQ] the one whom we should ask to guide us! It is ridiculous [RHQ] for people who are alive to request spirits of dead people to tell us [what we should do]!
もし人なんぢらにつげて巫女および魔術者のさえづるがごとく細語がごとき者にもとめよといはば民はおのれの神にもとむべきにあらずや いかで活者のために死者にもとむることを爲んといへ
20 Pay attention to God’s instructions and teaching! If people do not say things that agree with what God teaches us, [what they say is worthless]. [It is as though] those people are in darkness.
ただ律法と證詞とを求むべし 彼等のいふところ此言にかなはずば晨光あらじ
21 They will wander through the land, worried/discouraged and hungry. And when they become [very] hungry, they will become very angry. They will look up [toward heaven] and curse God and [will also] curse their king.
かれら國をへあるきて苦みうゑん その饑るとき怒をはなち己が王おのが神をさして誼ひかつその面をうへに向ん
22 They will look around the land and see only trouble/distress and darkness and things that cause them to despair. And [then] they will be thrown into the very black darkness [of hell]. (questioned)
また地をみれば艱難と幽暗とくるしみの闇とあり かれらは昏黑におひやられん
