Isaiah 42
1 "Look, my servant I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul delights. I have put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations.
わたしの支持するわがしもべ、わたしの喜ぶわが選び人を見よ。わたしはわが霊を彼に与えた。彼はもろもろの国びとに道をしめす。
2 He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.
彼は叫ぶことなく、声をあげることなく、その声をちまたに聞えさせず、
3 He won't break a bruised reed. And he won't extinguish a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
また傷ついた葦を折ることなく、ほのぐらい灯心を消すことなく、真実をもって道をしめす。
4 He will not grow dim or be crushed, until he has established justice on the earth, and in his name the coastlands will hope."
彼は衰えず、落胆せず、ついに道を地に確立する。海沿いの国々はその教を待ち望む。
5 Thus says God, the LORD, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
天を創造してこれをのべ、地とそれに生ずるものをひらき、その上の民に息を与え、その中を歩む者に霊を与えられる主なる神はこう言われる、
6 "I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
「主なるわたしは正義をもってあなたを召した。わたしはあなたの手をとり、あなたを守った。わたしはあなたを民の契約とし、もろもろの国びとの光として与え、
7 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
盲人の目を開き、囚人を地下の獄屋から出し、暗きに座する者を獄屋から出させる。
8 "I am the LORD. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.
わたしは主である、これがわたしの名である。わたしはわが栄光をほかの者に与えない。また、わが誉を刻んだ像に与えない。
9 Look, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up."
見よ、さきに預言した事は起った。わたしは新しい事を告げよう。その事がまだ起らない前に、わたしはまず、あなたがたに知らせよう」。
10 Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the remotest parts of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, the islands and their inhabitants.
主にむかって新しき歌をうたえ。地の果から主をほめたたえよ。海とその中に満ちるもの、海沿いの国々とそれに住む者とは鳴りどよめ。
11 Let the desert and its cities cry out, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
荒野とその中のもろもろの町と、ケダルびとの住むもろもろの村里は声をあげよ。セラの民は喜びうたえ。山の頂から呼ばわり叫べ。
12 Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
栄光を主に帰し、その誉を海沿いの国々で語り告げよ。
13 The LORD will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
主は勇士のように出て行き、いくさ人のように熱心を起し、ときの声をあげて呼ばわり、その敵にむかって大能をあらわされる。
14 "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
わたしは久しく声を出さず、黙して、おのれをおさえていた。今わたしは子を産もうとする女のように叫ぶ。わたしの息は切れ、かつあえぐ。
15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
わたしは山と丘とを荒し、すべての草を枯らし、もろもろの川を島とし、もろもろの池をからす。
16 I will bring the blind by a way that they do not know. I will lead them in paths that they do not know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
わたしは目しいを彼らのまだ知らない大路に行かせ、まだ知らない道に導き、暗きをその前に光とし、高低のある所を平らにする。わたしはこれらの事をおこなって彼らを捨てない。
17 "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
刻んだ偶像に頼み、鋳た偶像にむかって「あなたがたは、われわれの神である」と言う者は退けられて、大いに恥をかく。
18 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
耳しいよ、聞け。目しいよ、目を注いで見よ。
19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as the LORD's servant?
だれか、わがしもべのほかに目しいがあるか。だれか、わがつかわす使者のような耳しいがあるか。だれか、わが献身者のような目しいがあるか。だれか、主のしもべのような目しいがあるか。
20 You see many things, but do not observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.
彼は多くの事を見ても認めず、耳を開いても聞かない。
21 It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
主はおのれの義のために、その教を大いなるものとし、かつ光栄あるものとすることを喜ばれた。
22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them.'
ところが、この民はかすめられ、奪われて、みな穴の中に捕われ、獄屋の中に閉じこめられた。彼らはかすめられても助ける者がなく、物を奪われても「もどせ」と言う者もない。
23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
あなたがたのうち、だれがこの事に耳を傾けるだろうか、だれが心をもちいて後のためにこれを聞くだろうか。
24 Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
ヤコブを奪わせた者はだれか。かすめる者にイスラエルをわたした者はだれか。これは主ではないか。われわれは主にむかって罪を犯し、その道に歩むことを好まず、またその教に従うことを好まなかった。
25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he did not know; and it burned him, but he did not take it to heart."
それゆえ、主は激しい怒りと、猛烈な戦いを彼らに臨ませられた。それが火のように周囲に燃えても、彼らは悟らず、彼らを焼いても、心にとめなかった。
