Isaiah 22
1 [I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Jerusalem, about the valley where [Yahweh showed me] this vision. Why is everyone foolishly running up to their [flat] rooftops?
幻の谷についての託宣。あなたがたはなぜ、みな屋根にのぼったのか。
2 Everyone in the city [seems to] be shouting. [There are a lot of] corpses [in the city], [but they] were not killed by [their enemies’] swords. They did not die in battles; [instead, they died from diseases and hunger].
叫び声で満ちている者、騒がしい都、喜びに酔っている町よ。あなたのうちの殺された者はつるぎで殺されたのではなく、また戦いに倒れたのでもない。
3 All the leaders of the city fled. [But then] they were captured because they did not have bows [and arrows to defend themselves]. Your [soldiers tried to] flee while the enemy [army] was still far away, but they also were captured.
あなたのつかさたちは皆共にのがれて行ったが、弓を捨てて捕えられた。彼らは遠く逃げて行ったが、あなたのうちの見つかった者はみな捕えられた。
4 That is why I said, “Allow me to cry alone; do not try to comfort me [about my people being slaughtered].”
それゆえ、わたしは言った、「わたしを顧みてくれるな、わたしはいたく泣き悲しむ。わが民の娘の滅びのために、わたしを慰めようと努めてはならない」。
5 The Commander of the armies of angels has [chosen] a time when there will be a great uproar, [soldiers] marching, and people being terrified in the valley [where I received this] vision. [It will be a time when our city] walls will be battered down and [the people’s] cries [for help] will be heard in the mountains.
万軍の神、主は幻の谷に騒ぎと、踏みにじりと、混乱の日をこさせられる。城壁はくずれ落ち、叫び声は山に聞える。
6 The armies from Elam and Kir [in Media] will attack, driving chariots and carrying shields.
エラムは箙を負い、戦車と騎兵とをもってきたり、キルは盾をあらわした。
7 Our beautiful valleys will be filled with [our enemies’] chariots and the men who drive the chariots will stand outside [our city] gates.
あなたの最も美しい谷は戦車で満ち、騎兵はもろもろの門にむかって立った。
8 The walls that protect [the cities in] Judah will fall down. You [people of Jerusalem] will run to get the weapons [that are stored in the building called] “the Hall of the Forest”.
ユダを守るおおいは取り除かれた。その日あなたは林の家の武具を仰ぎ望んだ。
9 You will see that there are many breaks/holes in the walls of Jerusalem. You will store water in the lower pool [in the city].
またあなたがたはダビデの町の破れの多いのを見、下の池の水を集め、
10 You will inspect the houses in Jerusalem, and [some of] them you will tear down to use the stones to repair the [city] wall.
エルサレムの家を数え、またその家をこわして城壁を築き、
11 Between the walls [of the city] you will build a reservoir to [store] water from the old pool. But you will never request help from the one who made the city; you have never depended on Yahweh, who planned this city long ago.
一つの貯水池を二つの城壁の間に造って古池の水をひいた。しかしあなたがたはこの事をなされた者を仰ぎ望まず、この事を昔から計画された者を顧みなかった。
12 The Commander of the armies of angels told you to weep and mourn; he told you to shave your heads and to wear rough sackcloth to show that you were sorry for the sins that you had committed.
その日、万軍の神、主は泣き悲しみ、頭をかぶろにし、荒布をまとうことを命じられたが、
13 But instead of doing that, you were happy and celebrating; you slaughtered cattle and sheep, [in order to cook their] meat and eat it and drink wine. You said, “Let’s eat and drink [all that we want to], because [it is possible that] we will die tomorrow!”
見よ、あなたがたは喜び楽しみ、牛をほふり、羊を殺し、肉を食い、酒を飲んで言う、「われわれは食い、かつ飲もう、明日は死ぬのだから」。
14 [So] the Commander of the armies of angels revealed this to me: “I will never forgive my people for sinning like this!”
万軍の主はみずからわたしの耳に示された、「まことに、この不義はあなたがたが死ぬまで、ゆるされることはない」と万軍の神、主は言われる。
15 The Commander of the armies of angels said this [to me]: “Go to Shebna, the official who supervises the workers in the palace, and give this message to him:
万軍の神、主はこう言われる、「さあ、王の家をつかさどるこの執事セブナに行って言いなさい、
16 '[Who do you think you are?] Who gave you the authority to build a beautiful tomb where you will be buried, chiseling it out of the rocky cliff high above this valley?
『あなたはここになんの係わりがありますか。あなたはだれの縁故でここに自分のために墓を掘ったのですか。あなたは高い所に墓を掘り、岩をうがって自分のためにすみかを造った。
17 You [think that you are] [IRO] a great man, but Yahweh is about to hurl you away. [It will be as though] he will seize you,
強い人よ、見よ、主はあなたを激しくなげ倒される。主はあなたを堅くつかまえ、
18 and roll/crumple you into a ball and throw you away into a large distant land. You will die [and be buried] there, and your beautiful chariots will stay there [in the hands of your enemies]. And [because of what happens to you], your master, [the king], will be [very] ashamed/disgraced.
ぐるぐるまわして、まりのように広々した地に投げられる。主人の家の恥となる者よ、あなたはそこで死に、あなたの華麗な車はそこに残る。
19 Yahweh will force you to quit working in the palace; you will be demoted from your important position.
わたしは、あなたをその職から追い、その地位から引きおろす。
20 Then I will summon Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, who has served serve me [well], to replace you.
その日、わたしは、わがしもべヒルキヤの子エリアキムを呼んで、
21 I will allow him to wear your robe, and to fasten your sash around him, and I will give to him the authority that you had. He will be like [MET] a father to the people of Jerusalem and [all the other] towns in Judah.
あなたの衣を着せ、あなたの帯をしめさせ、あなたの権力を彼の手にゆだねる。彼はエルサレムの民とユダの家との父となる。
22 I will give to him authority [MTY] over [what happens in] the palace where King David [lived]; when he decides something [MET], no one will be able to oppose it; when he refuses to do something, no one will be able to force him to do it.
わたしはまたダビデの家のかぎを彼の肩に置く。彼が開けば閉じる者なく、彼が閉じれば開く者はない。
23 I will cause his family to be greatly respected, because I will put him firmly in his position [as supervisor of the workers in the palace], like [SIM] a nail that is firmly hammered into a wall.
わたしは彼を堅い所に打ったくぎのようにする。そして彼はその父の家の誉の座となり、
24 Others will enable him to have much responsibility, with the result that all the members of his family, even the most insignificant ones, will be honored.'”
その父の家のすべての重さは彼の上にかかる。すなわちその子、その孫およびすべての小さい器、鉢からすべてのびんにいたるまでみな、彼の上にかかる』」。
25 [But] the Commander of the armies of angels also says, “[Shebna is like] [MET] a peg that is firmly fastened to the wall. But there will be a time when I will [remove him from his position]; he will lose his power/influence, and everything that he promoted [MET] will fail. [That will surely happen] because [I], Yahweh, have said it.”
万軍の主は言われる、「その日、堅い所に打ったくぎは抜け、切られて落ちる。その上にかかっている荷もまた取り去られる」と主は語られた。
