Isaiah 16
1 [The rulers of Moab will say to each other, ] “We must send some [lambs] from Sela [city] as a gift to the ruler of Judah [to persuade him to not allow his army to attack us any more]. We should send them through the desert to the king.
なんぢら荒野のセラより羔羊をシオンの女の山におくりて國の首にをさむべし
2 The women of Moab will be left alone at the (fords of/places where people can walk across) the Arnon [River]; they will be like [SIM] birds that have been pushed out of their nests.
モアブの女輩はアルノンの津にありてさまよふ鳥のごとく巣をおはれたる雛のごとくなるべし
3 They will cry out, ‘Help us! Tell us what we should do! Protect us completely [MET], we who are running away [from our enemies], and do not (betray us/tell our enemies where we are).
相謀りて審判をおこなひ亭午にもなんぢの蔭を夜のごとくならしめ驅逐人をかくし遁れきたるものを顯はすなかれ
4 Allow [those of us] who are fleeing from Moab to stay with you; hide/protect us from [our enemies who want to] destroy us!’ [Some day] there will be no one to oppress us, and our enemies will stop destroying [our land].
わが驅逐人をなんぢとともに居しめ汝モアブの避所となりて之をそこなふ者のまへより脱れしめよ勒索者はうせ害ふものはたえ暴虐者は地より絶れん
5 Then [Yahweh] will appoint someone to be king who will be [a descendant of King] David. As he rules [MTY], he will be merciful and truthful. He will always do what is fair/just and quickly do what is righteous.”
ひとつの位あはれみをもて堅くたち眞實をおこなふ者そのうヘに坐せん彼ダビデの幕屋にをりて審判をなし公平をもとめて義をおこなふに速し
6 We [people of Judah] have heard about [the people of] Moab; we have heard that they are very proud and conceited [DOU]; they are insolent, but what they proudly say about themselves is not true.
われらモアブの傲慢をきけりその高ぶること甚だしわれらその誇とたかぶりと忿恚とをきけりその大言はむなし
7 [Some day all the people in] Moab will weep. They will all mourn, because [there will be no more] raisin cakes in Kir-Hareseth [city].
この故にモアブはモアブの爲になきさけび民みな哭さけぶべしなんぢら必らず甚だしく心をいためてキルハレステの乾葡萄のためになげくべし
8 The [crops in] the fields at Heshbon [city] will wither, and the vineyards at Sibmah [town] will wither also. The armies of [other] nations will destroy Moab, which is [like] [MET] a beautiful grapevine whose branches spread [north] to Jazer [town] and [east] to the desert. Its branches spread very far [west], to the west side of the [Dead] Sea.
そはヘシボンの畑とシブマのぶだうの樹とは凋みおとろヘたりその枝さきにはヤゼルにまでいたりて荒野にはびこりのびて海をわたりしが國々のもろもろの主その美はしき枝ををりたり
9 So I will weep for Jazer and for the grapevines of Sibmah. I will shed tears for all of you. I will cry because people will no longer shout joyfully, like they usually do when they gather the fruit that ripens in the (summer/hot season) and the other crops that they harvest.
この故にわれヤゼルの哭とひとしくシブマの葡萄の樹のためになかんヘシボンよエレアレよわが涙なんぢをひたさんそは鬨聲なんぢが果物なんぢが收穫の實のうへにおちきたればなり
10 People will no longer be glad at harvest time. No one will sing in the vineyards, no one will shout joyfully. No one will tread on grapes [to get grape juice for wine]; there will be nothing to shout about [joyfully].
欣喜とたのしみとは土肥たる畑より取さられ葡萄園には謳ふことなく歡呼ばふことなく酒榨にはふみて酒をしぼるものなし我そのよろこびたつる聲をやめしめたり
11 I cry inwardly for Moab; my groaning is like [SIM] [a sad song played on] a harp. I am sad about Kir-Hareseth.
このゆゑにわが心腸はモアブの故をもて琴のごとく鳴ひびきキルハレスの故をもてわが衷もまた然り
12 [The people of] Moab will go and pray at their sacred shrines, but that will not help them. They will cry out to their gods in their temples, [but] none of them will be able to rescue the people.
モアブは高處にいでて倦つかれその聖所にきたりて祈るべけれど驗あらじ
13 Yahweh has already spoken those things about Moab.
こはヱホバが曩にモアブに就てかたりたまへる聖言なり
14 But now he says that exactly three years from now, he will destroy all the things that [the people of] Moab have been proud of. Even though they have a huge number of people in Moab now, only a few people will remain alive, and they will be weak/helpless.
されど今ヱホバかたりて言たまはくモアブの榮はその大なる群衆とともに傭人の期にひとしく三年のうちに恥かしめをうけ遺れる者はなはだ少なくして力なからん
