イザヤ書 22
1 幻の谷についての託宣。あなたがたはなぜ、みな屋根にのぼったのか。
The burden of the valley of vision. What does it mean to you, then, that each of you have even climbed to the rooftops?
2 叫び声で満ちている者、騒がしい都、喜びに酔っている町よ。あなたのうちの殺された者はつるぎで殺されたのではなく、また戦いに倒れたのでもない。
Filled with clamor, a busy city, an exultant city: your dead have not been slain by the sword, nor did they die in battle.
3 あなたのつかさたちは皆共にのがれて行ったが、弓を捨てて捕えられた。彼らは遠く逃げて行ったが、あなたのうちの見つかった者はみな捕えられた。
All your leaders have fled together, and they have been bound by hardship. All who were found were chained together. They have fled far away.
4 それゆえ、わたしは言った、「わたしを顧みてくれるな、わたしはいたく泣き悲しむ。わが民の娘の滅びのために、わたしを慰めようと努めてはならない」。
For this reason, I said: “Depart from me. I will weep bitterly. Make no attempt to console me, over the devastation of the daughter of my people.”
5 万軍の神、主は幻の谷に騒ぎと、踏みにじりと、混乱の日をこさせられる。城壁はくずれ落ち、叫び声は山に聞える。
For it is a day of death, and of trampling, and of weeping to the Lord, the God of hosts, in the valley of vision: examining the wall and the magnificence above the mountain.
6 エラムは箙を負い、戦車と騎兵とをもってきたり、キルは盾をあらわした。
And Elam took up the quiver and the chariot of the horseman; and he stripped the wall of the shield.
7 あなたの最も美しい谷は戦車で満ち、騎兵はもろもろの門にむかって立った。
And your elect valleys will be filled with chariots, and the horsemen will position themselves at the gates.
8 ユダを守るおおいは取り除かれた。その日あなたは林の家の武具を仰ぎ望んだ。
And the covering of Judah will be exposed, and in that day, you will see the weaponry of the forest house.
9 またあなたがたはダビデの町の破れの多いのを見、下の池の水を集め、
And you will see breaches in the city of David, for these have been multiplied. But you have gathered together the waters of the lower fish-pool.
10 エルサレムの家を数え、またその家をこわして城壁を築き、
And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem. And you have destroyed the houses in order to fortify the wall.
11 一つの貯水池を二つの城壁の間に造って古池の水をひいた。しかしあなたがたはこの事をなされた者を仰ぎ望まず、この事を昔から計画された者を顧みなかった。
And you have made a pit between two walls for the waters of the ancient fish-pool. But you have not gazed upward to him who made it, and you have not considered, even from a distance, its Maker.
12 その日、万軍の神、主は泣き悲しみ、頭をかぶろにし、荒布をまとうことを命じられたが、
And in that day, the Lord, the God of hosts, will call to weeping and mourning, to baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.
13 見よ、あなたがたは喜び楽しみ、牛をほふり、羊を殺し、肉を食い、酒を飲んで言う、「われわれは食い、かつ飲もう、明日は死ぬのだから」。
But behold: gladness and rejoicing, the killing of calves and the slaughter of rams, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
14 万軍の主はみずからわたしの耳に示された、「まことに、この不義はあなたがたが死ぬまで、ゆるされることはない」と万軍の神、主は言われる。
And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears: “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you, until you die,” says the Lord, the God of hosts.
15 万軍の神、主はこう言われる、「さあ、王の家をつかさどるこの執事セブナに行って言いなさい、
Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: Go forth and enter to him who lives in the tabernacle, to Shebna, who is in charge of the temple, and you shall say to him:
16 『あなたはここになんの係わりがありますか。あなたはだれの縁故でここに自分のために墓を掘ったのですか。あなたは高い所に墓を掘り、岩をうがって自分のためにすみかを造った。
“What are you here, or who are you claiming to be here? For you have hewn a sepulcher for yourself here. You have diligently hewn a memorial in a rock, as a tabernacle to yourself.
17 強い人よ、見よ、主はあなたを激しくなげ倒される。主はあなたを堅くつかまえ、
Behold, the Lord will cause you to be carried away, like a domesticated rooster, and he will remove you, like an outer garment.
18 ぐるぐるまわして、まりのように広々した地に投げられる。主人の家の恥となる者よ、あなたはそこで死に、あなたの華麗な車はそこに残る。
He will crown you with a crown of tribulation. He will toss you like a ball into a broad and spacious land. There you will die, and there the chariot of your glory will be, for it is a shame to the house of your Lord.”
19 わたしは、あなたをその職から追い、その地位から引きおろす。
And I will expel you from your station, and I will depose you from your ministry.
20 その日、わたしは、わがしもべヒルキヤの子エリアキムを呼んで、
And this shall be in that day: I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah.
21 あなたの衣を着せ、あなたの帯をしめさせ、あなたの権力を彼の手にゆだねる。彼はエルサレムの民とユダの家との父となる。
And I will clothe him with your vestment, and I will strengthen him with your belt, and I will give your authority to his hand. And he shall be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22 わたしはまたダビデの家のかぎを彼の肩に置く。彼が開けば閉じる者なく、彼が閉じれば開く者はない。
And I will place the key of the house of David upon his shoulder. And when he opens, no one will close. And when he closes, no one will open.
23 わたしは彼を堅い所に打ったくぎのようにする。そして彼はその父の家の誉の座となり、
And I will fasten him like a peg in a trustworthy place. And he will be upon a throne of glory in the house of his father.
24 その父の家のすべての重さは彼の上にかかる。すなわちその子、その孫およびすべての小さい器、鉢からすべてのびんにいたるまでみな、彼の上にかかる』」。
And they will suspend over him all the glory of his father’s house: various kinds of vessels and every little article, from the vessels of bowls even to every instrument of music.
25 万軍の主は言われる、「その日、堅い所に打ったくぎは抜け、切られて落ちる。その上にかかっている荷もまた取り去られる」と主は語られた。
In that day, says the Lord of hosts, the peg which was fastened in a trustworthy place shall be taken away. And he will be broken, and he will fall, and he will perish, along with all that had depended upon him, because the Lord has spoken it.
