Isaiah 37
1 And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.
ヒゼキヤ王はこれを聞いて、衣を裂き、荒布を身にまとって主の宮に入り、
2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
宮内卿エリアキムと書記官セブナおよび祭司のうちの年長者たちに荒布をまとわせて、アモツの子預言者イザヤのもとへつかわした。
3 And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
彼らはイザヤに言った、「ヒゼキヤはこう言います、『きょうは悩みと責めと、はずかしめの日です。胎児がまさに生れようとして、これを産み出す力がないのです。
4 It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.
あなたの神、主は、あるいはラブシャケのもろもろの言葉を聞かれたかもしれません。彼はその主君アッスリヤの王につかわされて、生ける神をそしりました。あなたの神、主はその言葉を聞いて、あるいは責められるかもしれません。それゆえ、この残っている者のために祈をささげてください』」。
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
ヒゼキヤ王の家来たちがイザヤのもとに来たとき、
6 And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.
イザヤは彼らに言った、「あなたがたの主君にこう言いなさい、『主はこう仰せられる、アッスリヤの王のしもべらが、わたしをそしった言葉を聞いて恐れるには及ばない。
7 See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.
見よ、わたしは一つの霊を彼のうちに送って、一つのうわさを聞かせ、彼を自分の国へ帰らせて、その国でつるぎに倒れさせる』」。
8 So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.
ラブシャケは引き返して、アッスリヤの王がリブナを攻めているところへ行った。彼は王がラキシを去ったことを聞いたからである。
9 And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,
この時、アッスリヤの王はエチオピヤの王テルハカについて、「彼はあなたと戦うために出てきた」と人々が言うのを聞いた。彼はこのことを聞いて、使者をヒゼキヤにつかわそうとして言った、
10 This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
「ユダの王ヒゼキヤにこう言いなさい、『あなたは、エルサレムはアッスリヤの王の手に陥ることはない、と言うあなたの信頼する神に欺かれてはならない。
11 No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?
あなたはアッスリヤの王たちが、国々にしたこと、彼らを全く滅ぼしたことを聞いている。どうしてあなたは救われることができようか。
12 Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
わたしの先祖たちはゴザン、ハラン、レゼフおよびテラサルにいたエデンの人々を滅ぼしたが、その国々の神々は彼らを救ったか。
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivva?
ハマテの王、アルパデの王、セパルワイムの町の王、ヘナの王およびイワの王はどこにいるか』」。
14 And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,
ヒゼキヤは使者の手から手紙を受け取ってそれを読み、主の宮にのぼっていって、主の前にそれをひろげ、
15 And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,
主に祈って言った、
16 O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
「ケルビムの上に座しておられるイスラエルの神、万軍の主よ、地のすべての国のうちで、ただあなただけが神でいらせられます。あなたは天と地を造られました。
17 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.
主よ、耳を傾けて聞いてください。主よ、目を開いて見てください。セナケリブが生ける神をそしるために書き送った言葉を聞いてください。
18 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,
主よ、まことにアッスリヤの王たちは、もろもろの民とその国々を滅ぼし、
19 And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
またその神々を火に投げ入れました。それらは神ではなく、人の手の造ったもので、木や石だから滅ぼされたのです。
20 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.
今われわれの神、主よ、どうぞ、われわれを彼の手から救い出してください。そうすれば地の国々は皆あなただけが主でいらせられることを知るようになるでしょう」。
21 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.
その時アモツの子イザヤは人をつかわしてヒゼキヤに言った、「イスラエルの神、主はこう言われる、あなたはアッスリヤの王セナケリブについてわたしに祈ったゆえ、
22 This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.
主が彼について語られた言葉はこうである、『処女であるシオンの娘はあなたを侮り、あなたをあざける。エルサレムの娘は、あなたのうしろで頭を振る。
23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
あなたはだれをそしり、だれをののしったのか。あなたはだれにむかって声をあげ、目を高くあげたのか。イスラエルの聖者にむかってだ。
24 You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
あなたは、そのしもべらによって主をそしって言った、「わたしは多くの戦車を率いて山々の頂にのぼり、レバノンの奥へ行き、たけの高い香柏と、最も良いいとすぎを切り倒し、またその果の高地へ行き、その密林にはいった。
25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
わたしは井戸を掘って水を飲んだ。わたしは足の裏でエジプトのすべての川を踏みからした」。
26 Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
あなたは聞かなかったか、昔わたしがそれを定めたことを。堅固な町々を、あなたがこわして荒塚とすることも、いにしえの日から、わたしが計画して今それをきたらせたのだ。
27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
そのうちに住む民は力弱く、おののき恥をいだいて、野の草のように、青菜のようになり、育たずに枯れる屋根の草のようになった。
28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.
わたしは、あなたの座すること、出入りすること、また、わたしにむかって怒り叫んだことをも知っている。
29 Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
あなたが、わたしにむかって怒り叫んだことと、あなたの高慢な言葉とがわたしの耳にはいったゆえ、わたしは、あなたの鼻に輪をつけ、あなたの口にくつわをはめて、あなたを、もと来た道へ引きもどす』。
30 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.
あなたに与えるしるしはこれである。すなわち、ことしは落ち穂から生えた物を食べ、二年目には、またその落ち穂から生えた物を食べ、三年目には種をまき、刈り入れ、ぶどう畑を作ってその実を食べる。
31 And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.
ユダの家の、のがれて残る者は再び下に根を張り、上に実を結ぶ。
32 For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
すなわち残る者はエルサレムから出、のがれる物はシオンの山から出る。万軍の主の熱心がこれをなし遂げられる。
33 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.
それゆえ、主はアッスリヤの王について、こう仰せられる、『彼はこの町にこない。またここに矢を放たない。また盾をもって、その前にこない。また塁を築いて、これを攻めることはない。
34 By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.
彼は来た道から帰って、この町に、はいることはない、と主は言う。
35 For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
わたしは自分のため、また、わたしのしもべダビデのために町を守って、これを救おう』」。
36 And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
主の使が出て、アッスリヤびとの陣営で十八万五千人を撃ち殺した。人々が朝早く起きて見ると、彼らは皆死体となっていた。
37 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.
アッスリヤの王セナケリブは立ち去り、帰っていってニネベにいたが、
38 And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.
その神ニスロクの神殿で礼拝していた時、その子らのアデラン・メレクとシャレゼルがつるぎをもって彼を殺し、ともにアララテの地へ逃げていった。それで、その子エサルハドンが代って王となった。
