< Isaiah 51 >

1 Listen to me, those of you who follow what is right, and who worship the Lord. Think about the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were chiseled.
「義を追い求め、主を尋ね求める者よ、わたしに聞け。あなたがたの切り出された岩と、あなたがたの掘り出された穴とを思いみよ。
2 Look back at Abraham your father, and Sarah who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was only one man, but then I blessed him and he had many descendants.
あなたがたの父アブラハムと、あなたがたを産んだサラとを思いみよ。わたしは彼をただひとりであったときに召し、彼を祝福して、その子孫を増し加えた。
3 The Lord will care for Zion and feel sorry about all her ruined places. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert areas like the garden of the Lord. People there will have joy and happiness, giving thanks and singing sweet songs.
主はシオンを慰め、またそのすべて荒れた所を慰めて、その荒野をエデンのように、そのさばくを主の園のようにされる。こうして、その中に喜びと楽しみとがあり、感謝と歌の声とがある。
4 Pay attention to me, my people; listen to me, my nation: I will send out my law, and my justice will be a light to the nations.
わが民よ、わたしに聞け、わが国びとよ、わたしに耳を傾けよ。律法はわたしから出、わが道はもろもろの民の光となる。
5 My rule of right will arrive soon. My salvation is coming. My power will bring judgment to the nations. The distant lands are waiting for me and my power.
わが義はすみやかに近づき、わが救は出て行った。わが腕はもろもろの民を治める。海沿いの国々はわたしを待ち望み、わが腕に寄り頼む。
6 Look up at the heavens, and look down at the earth beneath. The heavens will disappear like smoke, the earth will wear out like old clothes. The people living there will die like flies, but my salvation will last forever, and my way of goodness and right will never be destroyed.
目をあげて天を見、また下なる地を見よ。天は煙のように消え、地は衣のようにふるび、その中に住む者は、ぶよのように死ぬ。しかし、わが救はとこしえにながらえ、わが義はくじけることがない。
7 Listen to me, you who know what's right, and who have really accepted my teachings. Don't be afraid of people's insults—they're just human—or be terrified by their abusive language.
義を知る者よ、心のうちにわが律法をたもつ者よ、わたしに聞け。人のそしりを恐れてはならない、彼らのののしりに驚いてはならない。
8 Moths will eat them up like clothing; bugs will chew through them like wool. But my goodness will last forever, my salvation will endure for all generations.
彼らは衣のように、しみに食われ、羊の毛のように虫に食われるからだ。しかし、わが義はとこしえにながらえ、わが救はよろず代に及ぶ」。
9 Please wake up, wake up! Use your strength, powerful Lord! Act as you used to in olden days, in former generations. Weren't you the one who cut Rahab to pieces, who killed that sea monster?
主のかいなよ、さめよ、さめよ、力を着よ。さめて、いにしえの日、昔の代にあったようになれ。ラハブを切り殺し、龍を刺し貫いたのは、あなたではなかったか。
10 Weren't you the one who dried up the sea, making a way through the deep waters for the redeemed to cross over?
海をかわかし、大いなる淵の水をかわかし、また海の深き所を、あがなわれた者の過ぎる道とされたのは、あなたではなかったか。
11 Those the Lord has set free will return, singing as they enter Jerusalem, wearing crowns of everlasting joy. They are overcome with thankfulness and happiness; sorrow and sadness simply disappear.
主にあがなわれた者は、歌うたいつつ、シオンに帰ってきて、そのこうべに、とこしえの喜びをいただき、彼らは喜びと楽しみとを得、悲しみと嘆きとは逃げ去る。
12 It's me, yes, I am the one who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortals who die just like grass?
「わたしこそあなたを慰める者だ。あなたは何者なれば、死ぬべき人を恐れ、草のようになるべき人の子を恐れるのか。
13 You have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and who laid the foundations of the earth! That's why you shake with fear all day long, because you're threatened by the anger of those who oppress you, wanting to destroy you. But where are your oppressors and their anger now?
天をのべ、地の基をすえられたあなたの造り主、主を忘れて、なぜ、しえたげる者が滅ぼそうと備えをするとき、その憤りのゆえに常にひねもす恐れるのか。しえたげる者の憤りはどこにあるか。
14 The prisoners that are bowed down will soon be set free. They're not going to die; they won't go on being hungry.
身をかがめている捕われ人は、すみやかに解かれて、死ぬことなく、穴にくだることなく、その食物はつきることがない。
15 For I am the Lord your God who whips up the sea so its waves roar. The Lord Almighty is his name.
わたしは海をふるわせ、その波をなりどよめかすあなたの神、主である。その名を万軍の主という。
16 I have told you what to say, and I have protected you with my hand. I created the heavens and founded the earth, and told Zion, “You are my people.”
わたしはわが言葉をあなたの口におき、わが手の陰にあなたを隠した。こうして、わたしは天をのべ、地の基をすえ、シオンにむかって、あなたはわが民であると言う」。
17 Wake up, wake up! Get up, Jerusalem! You have drunk from the cup of the Lord's anger he handed to you. You have drained it down to the bottom of the cup, the drink that makes people stagger around.
エルサレムよ、起きよ、起きよ、立て。あなたはさきに主の手から憤りの杯をうけて飲み、よろめかす大杯を、滓までも飲みほした。
18 Of all your children you had, there's not one left to guide you. Of all the children you raised, there's not one to take you by the hand.
その産んだもろもろの子のなかに、自分を導く者なく、その育てたもろもろの子のなかに、自分の手をとる者がない。
19 Two tragedies have struck you: devastation caused by famine, and destruction caused by war. Who is going to sympathize with you? Who is going to comfort you?
これら二つの事があなたに臨んだだれがあなたと共に嘆くだろうか荒廃と滅亡、ききんとつるぎ。だれがあなたを慰めるだろうか。
20 Your children have collapsed, lying in every street like antelopes caught in a trap. They experienced the full anger of the Lord, the condemnation of your God.
あなたの子らは息絶えだえになり、網にかかった、かもしかのように、すべてのちまたのすみに横たわり、主の憤りと、あなたの神の責めとは、彼らに満ちている。
21 So please listen to this, you poor people, sitting there in a drunken state, but not from drinking wine.
それゆえ、苦しめる者、酒にではなく酔っている者よ、これを聞け。
22 This is what your Lord God says, your God, who defends his people's cause: Look! I have taken away from you the cup that made you stagger around. You will never again have to drink from that cup, the cup of my anger.
あなたの主、おのが民の訴えを弁護されるあなたの神、主はこう言われる、「見よ、わたしはよろめかす杯をあなたの手から取り除き、わが憤りの大杯を取り除いた。あなたは再びこれを飲むことはない。
23 Instead I will give that cup to the people who tormented you, to those who said to you, “Lie face down so we can walk all over you.” You had to make your backs like the ground, like a street to be walked on.
わたしはこれをあなたを悩ます者の手におく。彼らはさきにあなたにむかって言った、『身をかがめよ、われわれは越えていこう』と。そしてあなたはその背を地のようにし、ちまたのようにして、彼らの越えていくにまかせた」。

< Isaiah 51 >