Isaiah 23
1 [I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Tyre [city]: You [sailors on] [APO] ships from Tarshish, weep, because [the harbor of] Tyre and all the houses [in the city] have been destroyed. The reports that you heard in Cyprus [island] about Tyre [are true].
ツロについての託宣。タルシシのもろもろの船よ、泣き叫べ、ツロは荒れすたれて、家なく、船泊まりする港もないからだ。この事はクプロの地から彼らに告げ知らせられる。
2 You people who live along the coast [near Tyre], and merchants of Sidon [city], mourn silently. Your sailors went across the seas [to many places like Tyre].
海べに住む民よ、シドンの商人よ、もだせ、あなたがたの使者は海を渡り、大いなる水の上にあった。
3 They sailed across deep seas to buy grain in Egypt and [other] crops that are grown along the Nile [River]. Tyre became the city where people from [all] nations bought and sold goods.
ツロの収入はシホルの穀物、ナイル川の収穫であった。ツロはもろもろの国びとの商人であった。
4 But now you people in Sidon should be ashamed, because [you trusted in Tyre], which has been a strong fortress [on an island] in the sea. [Tyre is like a woman who is saying], “[Now it is as though] I have not given birth to [any] children, or raised [any] sons or daughters.”
シドンよ、恥じよ、海は言った、海の城は言う、「わたしは苦しまず、また産まなかった。わたしは若い男子を養わず、また処女を育てなかった」。
5 When [the people of] Egypt hear what has happened to Tyre, they will grieve very much.
この報道がエジプトに達するとき、彼らはツロについての報道によって、いたく苦しむ。
6 Sail to Tarshish [and tell them what happened]; weep, you people who live along the coast.
タルシシに渡れ、海べに住む民よ、泣き叫べ。
7 [The people in] the very old city [of Tyre] were [RHQ] previously joyful. Traders [PRS] from Tyre established colonies in many distant nations.
これがその起源も古い町、自分の足で移り、遠くにまで移住した町、あなたがたの喜び誇る町なのか。
8 People from Tyre appointed kings [over other places]; their traders were wealthy; they were [as powerful and wealthy as] [MET] kings. [So], who [RHQ] caused the people of Tyre to experience this disaster?
ツロにむかってこれを定めたのはだれか。ツロは冠を授けた町、その商人は君たち、その貿易業者は地の尊い人々であった。
9 It was the Commander of the armies of angels who did it; he did it in order to cause [you people in] Tyre not to be proud any more, to humiliate you men who are honored all over the world.
万軍の主はすべての栄光の誇を汚し、地のすべての尊い者をはずかしめるためにこれを定められたのだ。
10 You people of Tarshish, you must grow crops in your land [instead of trading]; spread out over your land like [SIM] the Nile [River] spreads over the land [of Egypt] when it floods, because there is no harbor [in Tyre for your ships] now.
タルシシの娘よ、ナイル川のようにおのが地にあふれよ。もはや束縛するものはない。
11 [It is as though] Yahweh stretched out his hand over the sea and shook the kingdoms of the earth. He commanded that in Phoenicia/Canaan all its fortresses must be destroyed.
主はその手を海の上に伸べて国々を震い動かされた。主はカナンについて詔を出し、そのとりでをこわされた。
12 He said to the people of Sidon, “You will never rejoice again, because you will be crushed; even if you flee to Cyprus [island], you will not escape destruction.”
主は言われた、「しえたげられた処女シドンの娘よ、あなたはもはや喜ぶことはない。立って、クプロに渡れ、そこでもあなたは安息を得ることはない」。
13 Think about what happened in Babylonia: the people who were in that land have disappeared. [The armies of] Assyria have caused that land to become a place where wild animals from the desert live. The Assyrians built dirt ramps to the top of the walls [of the city of Babylon]; [then they entered the city and] tore down the palaces and caused the city to become [a heap of] rubble.
カルデヤびとの国を見よ、アッスリヤではなく、この民がツロを野の獣のすみかに定めた。彼らはやぐらを建て、もろもろの宮殿をこわして荒塚とした。
14 [So] wail, you [sailors on the] ships of Tarshish, because the harbor [in Tyre where your ships stop] is destroyed!
タルシシのもろもろの船よ、泣き叫べ、あなたがたのとりでは荒れすたれたから。
15 For seventy years, which is as long as kings usually live, people will forget about Tyre. [But then it will be rebuilt]. What will happen there will be like what happened to a prostitute in this song:
その日、ツロはひとりの王のながらえる日と同じく七十年の間忘れられ、七十年終って後、ツロは遊女の歌のようになる、
16 “You harlot, whom people had forgotten, play your harp well, and sing many songs, in order that people will remember you again.”
「忘れられた遊女よ、琴を執って町を経めぐり、巧みに弾じ、多くの歌をうたって、人に思い出されよ」。
17 [It is true that] after seventy years Yahweh will restore Tyre. Their merchants will again earn a lot of money by buying things from and selling things to many [other] nations [HYP].
七十年終って後、主はツロを顧みられる。ツロは再び淫行の価を得て、地のおもてにある世のすべての国々と姦淫を行い、
18 [But] their profits will be given to Yahweh. [The merchants] will not hoard their money; instead, they will give it to Yahweh’s priests in order that they [can] buy food and nice clothes.
その商品とその価とは主にささげられる。これはたくわえられることなく、積まれることなく、その商品は主の前に住む者のために豊かな食物となり、みごとな衣服となる。
