Isaiah 47
1 “Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For they no longer cry to you, O tender and delicate one.
バビロンの處女よ くだりて塵のなかにすわれ カルデヤ人のむすめよ座にすわらずして地にすわれ 汝ふたたび婀娜にして嬌なりととなへらるることなからん
2 Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove your veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
礱をとりて粉をひけ 面帕をとりさり袿をぬぎ髓をあらはして河をわたれ
3 Your nakedness is revealed, indeed, your reproach is seen, I take vengeance, and I do not meet a man.”
なんぢの肌はあらはれなんぢの恥はみゆべし われ仇をむくいて人をかへりみず
4 Our redeemer [is] YHWH of Hosts, His Name [is] the Holy One of Israel.
われらを贖ひたまふ者はその名を萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの聖者といふ
5 “Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For they no longer cry to you, Mistress of kingdoms.
カルデヤ人のむすめよ なんぢ口をつぐみてすわれ 又くらき所にいりてをれ 汝ふたたびもろもろの國の主母ととなへらるることなからん
6 I have been angry against My people, I have defiled My inheritance And I give them into your hand, You have not appointed mercies for them, You have made your yoke very heavy on the aged,
われわが民をいきどほりわが產業をけがして之をなんぢの手にあたへたり 汝これに憐憫をほどこさず年老たるもののうへに甚だおもき軛をおきたり
7 And you say, I am mistress for all time, While you have not laid these things to your heart, You have not remembered the latter end of it.
汝いへらく我とこしへに主母たらんと 斯てこれらのことを心にとめず亦その終をおもはざりき
8 And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting confidently—Who is saying in her heart, I [am], and none else, I do not sit [as] a widow, nor know bereavement.
なんぢ歡樂にふけり安らかにをり 心のうちにただ我のみにして我のほかに誰もなく我はやもめとなりてをらず また子をうしなふことを知まじとおもへる者よなんぢ今きけ
9 And these two things come to you, In a moment, in one day: childlessness and widowhood, They have come on you according to their perfection, In the multitude of your sorceries, In the exceeding might of your charms.
子をうしなひ寡婦となるこの二つのこと一日のうちに俄になんぢに來らん汝おほく魔術をおこなひひろく呪詛をほどこすと雖もみちみちて汝にきたるべし
10 And you are confident in your wickedness, You have said, There is none seeing me, Your wisdom and your knowledge, It is turning you back, And you say in your heart, I [am], and none else.
汝おのれの惡によりたのみていふ 我をみるものなしと なんぢの智慧となんぢの聰明とはなんぢを惑せたり なんぢ心のうちにおもへらくただ我のみにして我のほかに誰もなしと
11 And evil has come in on you, You do not know its rising, And disaster falls on you, You are not able to pacify it, And desolation comes on you suddenly, You do not know.
この故にわざはひ汝にきたらん なんぢ呪ひてこれを除くことをしらず 艱難なんぢに落きたらん 汝これをはらふこと能はず なんぢの思ひよらざる荒廢にはかに汝にきたるべし
12 Now stand in your charms, And in the multitude of your sorceries, In which you have labored from your youth, It may be you are able to profit, It may be you terrify!
今なんぢわかきときより勤めおこなひたる呪詛とおほくの魔術とをもて立むかふべしあるひは益をうることあらん あるひは敵をおそれしむることあらん
13 You have been wearied in the multitude of your counsels, Now stand up and let them save you—The charmers of the heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning the months—From those things that come on you!
なんぢは謀畧おほきによりて倦つかれたり かの天をうらなふもの星をみるもの新月をうらなふ者もし能はば いざたちて汝をきたらんとする事よりまぬかれしむることをせよ
14 Behold, they have been as stubble! Fire has burned them, They do not deliver themselves from the power of the flame, There is not a coal to warm them, a light to sit before it.
彼らは藁のごとくなりて火にやかれん おのれの身をほのほの勢力よりすくひいだすこと能はず その火は身をあたたむべき炭火にあらず又その前にすわるべき火にもあらず
15 So they have been to you with whom you have labored, Your merchants from your youth, They have each wandered to his passage, None is saving you!”
汝がつとめて行ひたる事は終にかくのごとくならん 汝のわかきときより汝とうりかひしたる者おのおのその所にさすらひゆきて一人だになんぢを救ふものなかるべし
