Isaiah 40
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
なんぢらの神いひたまはく なぐさめよ汝等わが民をなぐさめよ
2 Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her time of suffering is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.
懇ろにヱルサレムに語り之によばはり告よ その服役の期すでに終り その咎すでに赦されたり そのもろもろの罪によりてヱホバの手よりうけしところは倍したりと
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God!
よばはるものの聲きこゆ云く なんぢら野にてヱホバの途をそなへ沙漠にわれらの神の大路をなほくせよと
4 Every valley shall be raised up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places a plain.
もろもろの谷はたかくもろもろの山と岡とはひくくせられ 曲りたるはなほく崎嶇はたひらかにせらるべし
5 And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
斯てヱホバの榮光あらはれ人みな共にこれを見ん こはヱホバの口より語りたまへるなり
6 A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? — All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.
聲きこゆ云く よばはれ答へていふ何とよばはるべきか いはく人はみな草なり その榮華はすべて野の花のごとし
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
草はかれ花はしぼむ ヱホバの息そのうへに吹ければなり 實に民はくさなり
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God abideth for ever.
草はかれ花はしぼむ 然どわれらの神のことばは永遠にたたん
9 O Zion, that bringest glad tidings, get thee up into a high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest glad tidings, lift up thy voice with strength: lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
よき音信をシオンにつたふる者よ なんぢ高山にのぼれ 嘉おとづれをヱルサレムにつたふる者よ なんぢ強く聲をあげよ こゑを揚ておそるるなかれ ユダのもろもろの邑につけよ なんぢらの神きたり給へりと
10 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with might, and his arm shall rule for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.
みよ主ヱホバ能力をもちて來りたまはん その臂は統治めたまはん 賞賜はその手にあり はたらきの値はその前にあり
11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom; he will gently lead those that give suck.
主は牧者のごとくその群をやしなひ その臂にて小羊をいだき之をその懷中にいれてたづさへ乳をふくまする者をやはらかに導きたまはん
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with [his] span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?
たれか掌心をもてもろもろの水をはかり指をのばして天をはかり また地の塵を量器にもり天秤をもてもろもろの山をはかり權衡をもてもろもろの岡をはかりしや
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and, [as] his counsellor, hath taught him?
誰かヱホバの靈をみちびきその議士となりて敎しや
14 With whom took he counsel, and [who] gave him intelligence, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?
ヱホバは誰とともに議りたまひしや たれかヱホバを聰くしこれに公平の道をまなばせ知識をあたへ明通のみちを示したりしや
15 Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom.
視よもろもろの國民は桶のひとしづくのごとく 權衡のちりのごとくに思ひたまふ島々はたちのぼる塵埃のごとし
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.
レバノンは柴にたらずそのなかの獸は燔祭にたらず
17 All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.
ヱホバの前にはもろもろの國民みななきにひとし ヱホバはかれらを無もののごとく空きもののごとく思ひたまふ
18 To whom then will ye liken God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?
然ばなんぢら誰をもて神にくらべ いかなる肖像をもて神にたぐふか
19 The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains [for it].
偶像はたくみ鑄てつくり 金工こがねをもて之をおほひ白銀をもて之がために鏈をつくれり
20 He that is impoverished, so that he hath no offering, chooseth a tree that doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilled workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.
かかる寳物をそなへえざる貧しきものは朽まじき木をえらみ良匠をもとめてうごくことなき像をたたしむ
21 — Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood the foundation of the earth?
なんぢら知ざるか なんぢら聞ざるか 始よりなんぢらに傳へざりしか なんぢらは地の基をおきしときより悟らざりしか
22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
ヱホバは地のはるか上にすわり地にすむものを蝗のごとく視たまふ おほぞらを薄絹のごとく布き これを住ふべき幕屋のごとくはり給ふ
23 that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
又もろもろの君をなくならしめ地の審士をむなしくせしむ
24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
かれらは僅かに植られ僅かに播れ その幹わづかに地に根ざししに 神そのうへを吹たまへば即ちかれて藁のごとく暴風にまきさらるべし
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
聖者いひ給はく さらばなんぢら誰をもて我にくらべ我にたぐふか
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see! Who hath created these things, bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; through the greatness of his might and strength of power, not one faileth.
なんぢら眼をあげて高をみよ たれか此等のものを創造せしやをおもへ 主は數をしらべてその萬象をひきいだしおのおのの名をよびたまふ 主のいきほひ大なり その力のつよきがゆゑに一も缺ることなし
27 Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and my right is passed away from my God?
ヤコブよなんぢ何故にわが途はヱホバにかくれたりといふや イスラエルよ汝なにゆゑにわが訟はわが神の前をすぎされりとかたるや
28 Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.
汝しらざるか聞ざるかヱホバはとこしへの神地のはての創造者にして倦たまふことなく また疲れたまふことなく その聰明こと測りがたし
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.
疲れたるものには力をあたへ勢力なきものには強きをまし加へたまふ
30 Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, and the young men shall stumble and fall;
年少きものもつかれてうみ壯んなるものも衰へおとろふ
31 but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew [their] strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not tire; they shall walk, and not faint.
然はあれどヱホバを俟望むものは新なる力をえん また鷲のごとく翼をはりてのぼらん 走れどもつかれず歩めども倦ざるべし
