Isaiah 9
1 But the darkness shall not remain where now is distress; Of old he brought the land of Zebulon and the land of Naphtali into contempt; In future times shall he bring the land of the sea beyond Jordan, the circle of the gentiles, into honor.
今くるしみを受れども後には闇なかるべし 昔しはゼブルンの地ナフタリの地をあなどられしめ給ひしかど後には海にそひたる地ヨルダンの外の地ことくに人のガリラヤに榮をうけしめ給へり
2 The people that walk in darkness behold a great light; They who dwell in the land of death-like shade, Upon them a light shineth.
幽暗をあゆめる民は大なる光をみ死蔭の地にすめる者のうへに光てらせり
3 Thou enlargest the nation; Thou increasest their joy; They rejoice before thee with the joy of harvest, With the joy of those who divide the spoil.
なんぢ民をましその歡喜を大にしたまひければかれらは收穫時によろこぶがごとく掠物をわかつときに樂むがごとく汝の前によろこべり
4 For thou breakest their heavy yoke, And the rod that smote their backs, And the scourge of the taskmaster, As in the day of Midian.
そは汝かれらがおへる軌とその肩の笞と虐ぐるものの杖とを折りこれを折りてミデアンの日のごとくなし給ひたればなり
5 For every greave of the warrior in battle, And the war-garment rolled in blood, Shall be burned; yea, it shall be food for the fire.
すべて亂れたたかふ兵士のよろひと血にまみれたる衣とはみな火のもえくさとなりて焚るべし
6 For to us a child is born, To us a son is given, And the government shall be upon his shoulder, And he shall be called Wonderful, counsellor, mighty potentate, Everlasting father, prince of peace;
ひとりの嬰兒われらのために生れたり我儕はひとりの子をあたヘられたり政事はその肩にありその名は奇妙また議士また大能の神とこしへのちち平和の君ととなヘられん
7 His dominion shall be great, And peace without end shall be upon the throne of David and his kingdom, To fix and establish it Through justice and equity, Henceforth and forever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will do this.
その政事と平和とはましくははりて窮りなし且ダビデの位にすわりてその國ををさめ今よりのちとこしへに公平と正義とをもてとれを立これを保ちたまはん 萬軍のヱホバの熱心これを成たまふべし
8 The Lord sendeth a word against Jacob; It cometh down to Israel.
主一言をヤコブにおくり之をイスラエルの上にのぞませ給へり
9 His whole people shall feel it, Ephraim, and the inhabitants of Samaria, Who say in pride and arrogance of heart,
すべてのこの民エフライムとサマリヤに居るものとは知ならん かれらは高ぶり誇る心をもていふ
10 “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; The sycamores are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.”
瓦くづるるともわれら研石をもて建 くはの木きらるるともわれら香柏をもて之にかヘんと
11 Jehovah will raise up the enemies of Rezin against them, And will arm their adversaries;
この故にヱホバ、レヂンの敵をあげもちゐてイスラエルを攻しめその仇をたけび勇しめたまはん
12 The Syrians before, the Philistines behind, Who shall devour Israel with wide jaws. For all this his anger is not turned away, But his hand is stretched out still.
前にアラム人あり後にペシリテ人あり口をはりてイスラエルを呑んとす 然はあれどヱホバの怒やまずして尚その手をのばしたまふ
13 The people turn not to him that smiteth them; Neither do they seek Jehovah of hosts.
然どこの民はおのれをうつものに歸らず萬軍のヱホバを求めず
14 Therefore shall Jehovah cut off from Israel the head and the tail, The palm-branch and the rush, in one day.
斯るゆゑにヱホバ一日のうちに首と尾と椶櫚のえだと葦とをイスラエルより斷切たまはん
15 [[The aged and the honorable are the head, And the prophet that speaketh falsehood is the tail.]]
その首とは老たるもの尊きものその尾とは謊言をのぶる預言者をいふなり
16 For the leaders of this people lead them astray, And they that are led by them go to destruction.
この民をみちびく者はこれを迷はせその引導をうくる者はほろぶるなり
17 Therefore shall the Lord have no joy in their young men, And on their orphans and widows he shall have no compassion; For they are all profane, and evil-doers; Every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, But his hand is stretched out still.
このゆゑに主はその少壯者をよろこびたまはずその孤兒と寡婦とを憐みたまはざるべし 是その民はことごとく邪まなり惡をおこなふ者なり おのおのの口は愚かなる言をかたればなり 然はあれどヱホバの怒やまずして尚その手をのばしたまふ
18 For wickedness burneth like a fire, It consumeth the briers and thorns, And it kindleth the thicket of the forest, So that it goeth up in columns of smoke.
惡は火のごとくもえ棘と荊とを食つくし茂りあふ林をやくべければみな煙となりむらがりて上騰らん
19 Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burned, And the people are food for the fire; No one spareth another.
萬軍のヱホバの怒によりて地はくろく焼 その民は火のもえくさとなり人々たがひに相憐むことなし
20 They consume on the right hand, and yet are hungry; They devour on the left, and are not satisfied; Every one devoureth the flesh of his arm.
人みぎに攫めどもなほ飢ひだりに食へども尚あかず おのおのその腕の肉をくらふべし
21 Manasseh is against Ephraim, and Ephraim against Manasseh, And both together against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, But his hand is stretched out still.
マナセはエフライムをエフライムはマナセをくらひ又かれら相合てユダをを攻めん 然はあれどヱホバの怒やまずして尚その手をのばしたまふ
