イザヤ書 24
1 見よ、主はこの地をむなしくし、これを荒れすたれさせ、これをくつがえして、その民を散らされる。
Behold, the Lord will lay waste to the earth, and he will strip it, and he will afflict its surface, and he will scatter its inhabitants.
2 そして、その民も祭司もひとしく、しもべも主人もひとしく、はしためも主婦もひとしく、買う者も売る者もひとしく、貸す者も借りる者もひとしく、債権者も債務者もひとしく、この事にあう。
And this shall be: as with the people, so with the priest; and as with the servant, so with his master; as with the handmaid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3 地は全くむなしくされ、全くかすめられる。主がこの言葉を告げられたからである。
The earth will be utterly devastated and utterly plundered. For the Lord has spoken this word.
4 地は悲しみ、衰え、世はしおれ、衰え、天も地と共にしおれはてる。
The earth mourned, and slipped away, and languished. The world slipped away; the loftiness of the people of the earth was weakened.
5 地はその住む民の下に汚された。これは彼らが律法にそむき、定めを犯し、とこしえの契約を破ったからだ。
And the earth was corrupted by its inhabitants. For they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have dissipated the everlasting covenant.
6 それゆえ、のろいは地をのみつくし、そこに住む者はその罪に苦しみ、また地の民は焼かれて、わずかの者が残される。
Because of this, a curse will devour the earth, and its inhabitants will sin. And for this reason, its caretakers will become crazed, and few men will be left behind.
7 新しいぶどう酒は悲しみ、ぶどうはしおれ、心の楽しい者もみな嘆く。
The vintage has mourned. The vine has languished. All those who were rejoicing in their hearts have groaned.
8 鼓の音は静まり、喜ぶ者の騒ぎはやみ、琴の音もまた静まった。
The gladness of the drums has ceased. The sound of rejoicing has quieted. The sweetness of stringed instruments has been silenced.
9 彼らはもはや歌をうたって酒を飲まず、濃き酒はこれを飲む者に苦くなる。
They will not drink wine with a song. The drink will be bitter to those who drink it.
10 混乱せる町は破られ、すべての家は閉ざされて、はいることができない。
The city of vanity has been worn away. Every house has been closed up; no one enters.
11 ちまたには酒の不足のために叫ぶ声があり、すべての喜びは暗くなり、地の楽しみは追いやられた。
There will be a clamor for wine in the streets. All rejoicing has been abandoned. The gladness of the earth has been carried away.
12 町には荒れすたれた所のみ残り、その門もこわされて破れた。
Solitude is what remains in the city, and calamity will overwhelm its gates.
13 地のうちで、もろもろの民のなかで残るものは、オリブの木の打たれた後の実のように、ぶどうの収穫の終った後にその採り残りを集めるときのようになる。
For so shall it be in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people: it is as if the few remaining olives are being shaken from the olive tree, and it is like a few clusters of grapes, when the grape harvest has already ended.
14 彼らは声をあげて喜び歌う。主の威光のゆえに、西から喜び呼ばわる。
These few shall lift up their voice and give praise. When the Lord will have been glorified, they will make a joyful noise from the sea.
15 それゆえ、東で主をあがめ、海沿いの国々でイスラエルの神、主の名をあがめよ。
Because of this, glorify the Lord in doctrine: the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea.
16 われわれは地の果から、さんびの歌を聞いた、「栄光は正しい者にある」と。しかし、わたしは言う、「わたしはやせ衰える、わたしはやせ衰える、わたしはわざわいだ。欺く者はあざむき、欺く者は、はなはだしくあざむく」。
From the ends of the earth, we have heard the praises of the glory of the Just One. And I said: “My secret is for myself! My secret is for myself! Woe to me! Those who would betray us have betrayed us, and they have betrayed us with the betrayal of transgression.”
17 地に住む者よ、恐れと、落し穴と、わなとはあなたの上にある。
Dread, and the pit, and the snare are over you, O inhabitant of the earth!
18 恐れの声をのがれる者は落し穴に陥り、落し穴から出る者はわなに捕えられる。天の窓は開け、地の基が震い動くからである。
And this shall be: whoever will flee from the voice of dread will fall into the pit. And whoever will extricate himself from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the floodgates from above have been opened, and the foundations of the earth will be shaken.
19 地は全く砕け、地は裂け、地は激しく震い、
The earth will be utterly broken! The earth will be utterly crushed! The earth will be utterly shaken!
20 地は酔いどれのようによろめき、仮小屋のようにゆり動く。そのとがはその上に重く、ついに倒れて再び起きあがることはない。
The earth will stagger greatly, like a drunken man, and will be carried away, like the tent of a single night. And its iniquity will be heavy upon it, and it will fall and not rise up again.
21 その日、主は天において、天の軍勢を罰し、地の上で、地のもろもろの王を罰せられる。
And this shall be: in that day, the Lord will visit upon the armies of the sky above, and upon the kings of the earth who are on the ground.
22 彼らは囚人が土ろうの中に集められるように集められて、獄屋の中に閉ざされ、多くの日を経て後、罰せられる。
And they will be gathered together like the gathering of one bundle into a pit. And they will be enclosed in that place, as in a prison. And after many days, they will be visited.
23 こうして万軍の主がシオンの山およびエルサレムで統べ治め、かつその長老たちの前にその栄光をあらわされるので、月はあわて、日は恥じる。
And the moon will be ashamed, and the sun will be confounded, when the Lord of hosts will reign on mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and when he will have been glorified in the sight of his elders.
