Isaiah 13
1 The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
アモツの子イザヤに示されたバビロンについての託宣。
2 Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go into the doors of the great ones.
あなたがたは木のない山に旗を立て、声をあげて彼らを招き、手を振って彼らを貴族の門に、はいらせよ。
3 I have given orders to my holy ones, I have sent out my men of war, those of mine who take pride in their power, to give effect to my wrath.
わたしはわが怒りのさばきを行うために聖別した者どもに命じ、わが勇士、わが勝ち誇る者どもを招いた。
4 The noise of great numbers in the mountains, like the noise of a strong people! The noise of the kingdoms of the nations meeting together! The Lord of armies is numbering his forces for war.
聞け、多くの民のような騒ぎ声が山々に聞える。聞け、もろもろの国々、寄りつどえるもろもろの国民のざわめく声が聞える。これは万軍の主が戦いのために軍勢を集められるのだ。
5 They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.
彼らは遠い国から、天の果から来る。これは、主とその憤りの器で、全地を滅ぼすために来るのだ。
6 Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.
あなたがたは泣き叫べ。主の日が近づき、滅びが全能者から来るからだ。
7 For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;
それゆえ、すべての手は弱り、すべての人の心は溶け去る。
8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.
彼らは恐れおののき、苦しみと悩みに捕えられ、子を産まんとする女のようにもだえ苦しみ、互に驚き、顔を見あわせ、その顔は炎のようになる。
9 See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.
見よ、主の日が来る。残忍で、憤りと激しい怒りとをもってこの地を荒し、その中から罪びとを断ち滅ぼすために来る。
10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
天の星とその星座とはその光を放たず、太陽は出ても暗く、月はその光を輝かさない。
11 And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.
わたしはその悪のために世を罰し、その不義のために悪い者を罰し、高ぶる者の誇をとどめ、あらぶる者の高慢を低くする。
12 I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.
わたしは人を精金よりも、オフルのこがねよりも少なくする。
13 For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.
それゆえ、万軍の主の憤りにより、その激しい怒りの日に、天は震い、地は揺り動いて、その所をはなれる。
14 And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.
彼らは追われた、かもしかのように、あるいは集める者のない羊のようになって、おのおの自分の民に帰り、自分の国に逃げて行く。
15 Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.
すべて見いだされる者は刺され、すべて捕えられる者はつるぎによって倒され、
16 Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.
彼らのみどりごはその目の前で投げ砕かれ、その家はかすめ奪われ、その妻は汚される。
17 See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.
見よ、わたしは、しろがねをも顧みず、こがねをも喜ばないメデアびとを起して、彼らにむかわせる。
18 In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
彼らの弓は若い者を射殺し、腹の実をあわれむことなく、幼な子を見て、惜しむことがない。
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
国々の誉であり、カルデヤびとの誇である麗しいバビロンは、神に滅ぼされたソドム、ゴモラのようになる。
20 People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.
ここにはながく住む者が絶え、世々にいたるまで住みつく者がなく、アラビヤびともそこに天幕を張らず、羊飼もそこに群れを伏させることがない。
21 But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there.
ただ、野の獣がそこに伏し、ほえる獣がその家に満ち、だちょうがそこに住み、鬼神がそこに踊る。
22 And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.
ハイエナはその城の中で鳴き、山犬は楽しい宮殿でほえる。その時の来るのは近い、その日は延びることがない。
