イザヤ書 9

1 今くるしみを受れども後には闇なかるべし 昔しはゼブルンの地ナフタリの地をあなどられしめ給ひしかど 後には海にそひたる地ヨルダンの外の地 ことくに人のガリラヤに榮をうけしめ給へり

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

2 幽暗をあゆめる民は大なる光をみ 死蔭の地にすめる者のうへに光てらせり

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.

3 なんぢ民をましその歡喜を大にしたまひければ かれらは收穫時によろこぶがごとく掠物をわかつときに樂むがごとく汝の前によろこべり

You have multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

4 そは汝かれらがおへる軛とその肩の笞と虐ぐるものの杖とを折り これを折りてミデアンの日のごとくなし給ひたればなり

For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

5 すべて亂れたたかふ兵士のよろひと血にまみれたる衣とはみな火のもえくさとなりて焚るべし

For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

6 ひとりの嬰兒われらのために生れたり 我儕はひとりの子をあたへられたり 政事はその肩にあり その名は奇妙また議士 また大能の神とこしへのちち 平和の君ととなへられん

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

7 その政事と平和とはましくははりて窮りなし 且ダビデの位にすわりてその國ををさめ今よりのちとこしへに公平と正義とをもてこれを立これを保ちたまはん 萬軍のヱホバの熱心これを成たまふべし

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

8 主一言をヤコブにおくり之をイスラエルの上にのぞませ給へり

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel.

9 すべてのこの民エフライムとサマリヤに居るものとは知ならん かれらは高ぶり誇る心をもていふ

And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

10 瓦くづるるともわれら斫石をもて建 くはの木きらるるともわれら香柏をもて之にかへんと

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

11 この故にヱホバ、レヂンの敵をあげもちゐてイスラエルを攻しめ その仇をたけび勇しめたまはん

Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;

12 前にアラム人あり後にペシリテ人あり 口をはりてイスラエルを呑んとす 然はあれどヱホバの怒やまずして尚その手をのばしたまふ

The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

13 然どこの民はおのれをうつものに歸らず萬軍のヱホバを求めず

For the people turns not unto him that strikes them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

14 斯るゆゑにヱホバ一日のうちに首と尾と椶櫚のえだと葦とをイスラエルより斷切たまはん

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

15 その首とは老たるもの尊きもの その尾とは謊言をのぶる預言者をいふなり

The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.

16 この民をみちびく者はこれを迷はせその引導をうくる者はほろぶるなり

For the leaders of this people cause them to go astray; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

17 このゆゑに主はその少壯者をよろこびたまはず その孤兒と寡婦とを憐みたまはざるべし 是その民はことごとく邪まなり惡をおこなふ者なり おのおのの口は愚かなる言をかたればなり 然はあれどヱホバの怒やまずして尚その手をのばしたまふ

Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

18 惡は火のごとくもえ棘と荊とを食つくし茂りあふ林をやくべければみな煙となりむらがりて上騰らん

For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

19 萬軍のヱホバの怒によりて地はくろく燒 その民は火のもえくさとなり人々たがひに相憐むことなし

Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

20 人みぎに攫めどもなほ饑 ひだりに食へども尚あかず おのおのその腕の肉をくらふべし

And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

21 マナセはエフライムを エフライムはマナセをくらひ 又かれら相合てユダを攻めん 然はあれどヱホバの怒やまずして尚その手をのばしたまふ

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.