Isaiah 6
1 During the year that King Uzziah died, [Yahweh showed me a vision. In the vision], I saw Yahweh sitting on a throne, high above everyone. He [was wearing a very long] robe that covered [the floor of] the temple.
ウジヤ王の死んだ年、わたしは主が高くあげられたみくらに座し、その衣のすそが神殿に満ちているのを見た。
2 Above him were standing [several] winged creatures. Each of them had six wings. They covered their faces with two of their wings, they covered their feet with two of their wings, and they flew using two of their wings.
その上にセラピムが立ち、おのおの六つの翼をもっていた。その二つをもって顔をおおい、二つをもって足をおおい、二つをもって飛びかけり、
3 They were calling to each other, saying, “The Commander of the armies of angels is holy; he is completely holy! The entire earth is filled with his glory.”
互に呼びかわして言った。「聖なるかな、聖なるかな、聖なるかな、万軍の主、その栄光は全地に満つ」。
4 When they spoke, it caused the doorposts of the temple to shake, and the temple was filled with smoke.
その呼ばわっている者の声によって敷居の基が震い動き、神殿の中に煙が満ちた。
5 Then I said, “Terrible things will happen to me, because everything that I say [MTY] is sinful, and I live among people who constantly say [MTY] sinful things. I will be destroyed because I have seen the Commander of the armies of angels!”
その時わたしは言った、「わざわいなるかな、わたしは滅びるばかりだ。わたしは汚れたくちびるの者で、汚れたくちびるの民の中に住む者であるのに、わたしの目が万軍の主なる王を見たのだから」。
6 Then one of the winged creatures took a hot coal from the altar, using a pair of tongs. He flew to me
この時セラピムのひとりが火ばしをもって、祭壇の上から取った燃えている炭を手に携え、わたしのところに飛んできて、
7 and touched my lips with the coal. Then he said, “Look [at what I have done]. I have touched your lips [with this coal]. [Now] your guilt is ended, and your sins are forgiven [DOU].”
わたしの口に触れて言った、「見よ、これがあなたのくちびるに触れたので、あなたの悪は除かれ、あなたの罪はゆるされた」。
8 Then I heard Yahweh asking, “Whom shall I send [to be a messenger to my people]? Who will go [and speak] for us?” I replied, “I will. Send me!”
わたしはまた主の言われる声を聞いた、「わたしはだれをつかわそうか。だれがわれわれのために行くだろうか」。その時わたしは言った、「ここにわたしがおります。わたしをおつかわしください」。
9 Then he said, “[Okay], go, and say to the [Israeli] people, ‘You will listen carefully [to what I say], but you will not understand it. You will look very carefully [at the things that I am doing], but you will not understand them.’
主は言われた、「あなたは行って、この民にこう言いなさい、『あなたがたはくりかえし聞くがよい、しかし悟ってはならない。あなたがたはくりかえし見るがよい、しかしわかってはならない』と。
10 [What you(sg) say will] cause these people to become stubborn [IDM]; [it will cause them] to not be able to hear [what I say] and see [what I do]. [As a result, they will not] see [what I want them to see] or hear [what I want them to hear], and they will not understand it, and they will not turn to me and be saved [from being punished].”
あなたはこの民の心を鈍くし、その耳を聞えにくくし、その目を閉ざしなさい。これは彼らがその目で見、その耳で聞き、その心で悟り、悔い改めていやされることのないためである」。
11 Then I said, “How long [do you want me to continue to do that]?” He replied, “[Do it] until their cities are ruined [by their enemies], [until] no one is living in their houses, [do it until] all the crops are stolen from their fields and the fields are ruined.
そこで、わたしは言った、「主よ、いつまでですか」。主は言われた、「町々は荒れすたれて、住む者もなく、家には人かげもなく、国は全く荒れ地となり、
12 [Do it] until I have (exiled everyone/forced everyone to go to their enemies’ lands) far away, and the whole land [of Israel] is deserted.
人々は主によって遠くへ移され、荒れはてた所が国の中に多くなる時まで、こうなっている。
13 If [even] one tenth [of the people survive and] stay there, [their enemies] will [invade the land again and] burn everything. [But, just] like [MET] when an oak [tree] is cut down, a stump is left [from which new shoots will grow], the people who remain [in this land will be a group that will become large again] and be (set apart for/dedicated to) me.”
その中に十分の一の残る者があっても、これもまた焼き滅ぼされる。テレビンの木またはかしの木が切り倒されるとき、その切り株が残るように」。聖なる種族はその切り株である。
