Isaiah 13
1 The burden of 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 Over the foggy mountain lift up a sign! Raise the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers enter through the gates!
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 In my wrath, I commanded my sanctified ones, and I called my strong ones, those who exult in my glory.
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 On the mountains, there is the voice of a multitude, as if of a numerous people, a voice with the sound of kings, of nations gathered together. For the Lord of hosts has given orders to soldiers of 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 to those who are arriving from a far off land, from the heights of the heavens. It is the Lord and the instruments of his fury, so that he may bring ruin to all the earth.
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 Wail aloud! For the day of the Lord draws near! It will arrive like a devastation from the Lord.
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 Because of it, every hand will fail, and every heart of man will waste away and be crushed.
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 Writhing and pain will seize them. They will be in pain, like a woman in labor. Each one will appear stupefied to his neighbor. Their countenances will be like faces which have been burned up.
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 Behold, the day of the Lord approaches: a cruel day, full of indignation and wrath and fury, which will place the earth in solitude and crush the sinners from it.
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 the heavens, in their splendor, will not display their light. The sun will be obscured at its rising, and the moon will not shine in her brightness.
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 act against the evils of the world, and against the impious for their iniquity. And I will cause the pride of the unfaithful to cease, and I will bring down the arrogance of the strong.
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 A man will be more precious than gold, and mankind will become like pure refined gold.
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 purpose, I will stir up heaven, and the earth will be moved from its place, because of the indignation of the Lord of hosts, because of the day of his furious wrath.
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 they will be like a doe fleeing away, or like sheep; and there will be no one who may gather them together. Each one will turn to his own people, and every one will flee to his own 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 All who are found will be killed, and all who are caught unaware will fall by 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 infants will be thrown down violently before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.
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 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not seek silver, nor desire 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 Instead, with their arrows, they will put the little children to death, and they will take no pity on breastfeeding women, and their eye will not spare their children.
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 then Babylon, the glorious one among kingdoms, that famous pride of the Chaldeans, will be destroyed, even as the Lord destroyed 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 It will not be inhabited, even unto the end, and it will not be reestablished, even from generation to generation. The Arab will not pitch his tents there, nor will the shepherds take rest there.
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 Instead, the wild beasts will rest there, and their houses will be filled with serpents, and ostriches will live there, and the hairy ones will leap about 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 the tawny owls will answer one another there, in its buildings, and the Sirens in its shrines of pleasure.
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。
