イザヤ書 52
1 シオンよ、さめよ、さめよ、力を着よ。聖なる都エルサレムよ、美しい衣を着よ。割礼を受けない者および汚れた者は、もはやあなたのところに、はいることがないからだ。
[You people who live in the] holy city of Jerusalem [APO], wake up! Be strong again! Show that [MTY] your city is beautiful and glorious; foreigners who do not believe in God will not enter your city again [to attack you].
2 捕われたエルサレムよ、あなたの身からちりを振り落せ、起きよ。捕われたシオンの娘よ、あなたの首のなわを解きすてよ。
People of Jerusalem, get up from [humbly] sitting in the dust and sit in places where people are honored! You people who have returned from being exiled, take off from your neck the chains which were fastened around you [as slaves in Babylonia],
3 主はこう言われる、「あなたがたは、ただで売られた。金を出さずにあがなわれる」。
because this is what Yahweh says: “[When you were taken to Babylonia], no one paid me for doing that. So now I will bring you back without [being required to] pay for you!”
4 主なる神はこう言われる、「わが民はさきにエジプトへ下って行って、かしこに寄留した。またアッスリヤびとはゆえなく彼らをしえたげた。
Yahweh [our] Lord [also] says this: “Long ago, my people went to Egypt to live there. [Later] they were being (oppressed/treated cruelly) by [the soldiers of] Assyria.
5 それゆえ、今わたしはここに何をしようか。わが民はゆえなく捕われた」と主は言われる。主は言われる、「彼らをつかさどる者はわめき、わが名は常にひねもす侮られる。
But now think about what is happening: My people are being forced to be slaves again, this time by the [people of Babylonia]. And [those who have conquered them this time have also] paid me nothing, and they despise me [MTY] continually [DOU].
6 それゆえ、わが民はわが名を知るにいたる。その日には彼らはこの言葉を語る者がわたしであることを知る。わたしはここにおる」。
But my people will then have a close relationship with [MTY] me, and when that happens, they will know that I am the one who predicted/promised [that it would happen]. It is I, [Yahweh, who will do it].”
7 よきおとずれを伝え、平和を告げ、よきおとずれを伝え、救を告げ、シオンにむかって「あなたの神は王となられた」と言う者の足は山の上にあって、なんと麗しいことだろう。
It is a wonderful thing when messengers [MTY] arrive on the mountains/hills, bringing good news, the news about [God giving us] peace and saving us, the news that the God to whom we [Israeli people] belong is now ruling/king!
8 聞けよ、あなたの見張びとは声をあげて、共に喜び歌っている。彼らは目と目と相合わせて、主がシオンに帰られるのを見るからだ。
The watchmen [who are guarding the city] will shout and sing joyfully, because while they are watching they will see Yahweh returning to Jerusalem.
9 エルサレムの荒れすたれた所よ、声を放って共に歌え。主はその民を慰め、エルサレムをあがなわれたからだ。
Jerusalem has been ruined, but the people who are there now should start to sing joyfully, because Yahweh will encourage his people; he will set his people free and bring them back to Jerusalem.
10 主はその聖なるかいなを、もろもろの国びとの前にあらわされた。地のすべての果は、われわれの神の救を見る。
Yahweh will show all the nations that he is holy and powerful. People in the most remote/distant places on earth will know that he has rescued his people.
11 去れよ、去れよ、そこを出て、汚れた物にさわるな。その中を出よ、主の器をになう者よ、おのれを清く保て。
So, leave [the places where you were taken to when you were captured], where [everything is] unacceptable to God. You men who carry the items used for the worship of Yahweh, leave there [and return to Jerusalem], and purify yourselves [in order to be acceptable to worship God].
12 あなたがたは急いで出るに及ばない、また、とんで行くにも及ばない。主はあなたがたの前に行き、イスラエルの神はあなたがたのしんがりとなられるからだ。
But it will not [be necessary] for you to leave suddenly, to flee in panic, because Yahweh will (go in front of/lead) you; and he will [also] protect you [from being attacked] at the rear [while you travel].
13 見よ、わがしもべは栄える。彼は高められ、あげられ、ひじょうに高くなる。
[Yahweh says], “Listen carefully! My servant will act wisely (OR, do the right things to accomplish what he wants to), and I will highly exalt him.”
14 多くの人が彼に驚いたように彼の顔だちは、そこなわれて人と異なり、その姿は人の子と異なっていたからである
But many people will be appalled when they see what has happened to him. [Because of his being beaten very badly], his appearance will be changed; people will hardly recognize that he is a human.
15 彼は多くの国民を驚かす。王たちは彼のゆえに口をつむぐ。それは彼らがまだ伝えられなかったことを見、まだ聞かなかったことを悟るからだ。
But he will cause [people of] many nations to be surprised; [even] kings will be silent when they stand in front of him, because they will see someone that no one had told them about [previously], and they will understand things that they had not heard about [before].
