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。
Some day, Yahweh is going to destroy everything on the earth. He will devastate it and cause it to become a desert and scatter its people.
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。
He will scatter everyone— priests and common people, servants and their masters, maids and their mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, people who owe money and people who are owed money.
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。
Nothing that is worth anything will be left on earth; everything valuable will be destroyed. [That will surely happen because] Yahweh has said it.
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。
[Everything on] the earth will dry up and die [DOU]; its important people will become weak and unimportant.
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。
The earth has become unacceptable to Yahweh because the people who live on it have disobeyed his laws; they have rejected the agreement that he intended to last forever.
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。
Therefore, [Yahweh] will curse the earth; the people who live on it must be punished because of the sins that they have committed. They will be destroyed by fire, and [only a] few people will remain [alive].
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 grapevines will wither, and there will be no [grapes to make] wine. All [the people] who were previously happy will then groan and mourn.
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。
People will no longer play cheerful songs with tambourines, people will no longer play joyfully on their harps, and people will no longer shout noisily [during their celebrations].
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。
People will no longer sing while they drink wine, and [all] their alcoholic drinks will taste bitter.
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。
[Towns and] cities will be desolate; every house will be locked to prevent thieves from entering.
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。
[Mobs] will gather in the streets, wanting wine; no one on the earth will be happy [DOU] any more.
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。
Cities will be ruined and [all] their gates will be battered/broken into pieces.
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。
It will be like that all over the earth: [there will only be a few people still alive], like what happens when [workers] beat all the olives off a tree [and there are only a few left], [or] when they harvest the grapes and there are only a few left [on the vines].
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。
But [those who are left alive] will sing joyfully; people [in nations] to the west [of Israel] will declare that Yahweh is very great;
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。
people in nations to the east [of Israel will also] praise Yahweh [MTY]; in countries across the sea, people will praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship].
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」。
We will hear [people] in the most distant places on the earth singing praise to [Yahweh], the [truly] righteous one. But [now], I am [SYN] very sad. Weep for me, [because] I have become thin and weak. Terrible things are happening! Treacherous [people still] betray/deceive others everywhere [DOU].
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。
You people all over the earth, you will be terrified, and you will fall into deep pits and traps/snares.
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。
Those who [try to] flee because they are terrified will fall into [deep] pits, and those who climb out of the pits will be caught by traps/snares. The sky will split open and torrents [SIM] [of rain will fall]; the foundations of the earth will shake.
19 地は全く砕け、地は裂け、地は激しく震い、
The earth will split apart and be shattered; it will shake violently.
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。
[It will be as though] the earth will stagger like [SIM] a drunk; it will shake like [SIM] a hut [shakes in a windstorm]. It will collapse and not [be able to] rise again, [because] the guilt of the people who rebel [against Yahweh] is very great.
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。
At that time, Yahweh will punish the [wicked] powerful beings in the skies and the wicked kings on the earth.
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。
They will [all] be gathered together and thrown into a dungeon/pit. They will be shut/locked in that dungeon/pit, and later they will be punished.
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。
At that time the light of the moon and the sun will be lessened; [it will be as though] they are ashamed [in the presence of] Yahweh, because he, the Commander of the armies of angels, will rule gloriously (on Zion Hill/in Jerusalem), in the presence of the leaders [of his people].
