Isaiah 16
1 Send rams to the ruler of the land from Selah in the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
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 As wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so the women of Moab are at the fords of the Arnon River.
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 “Give instruction, execute justice; provide some shade like night in the middle of the day; hide the fugitives; do not betray the fugitives.
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 Let them live among you, the refugees from Moab; be a hiding place for them from the destroyer.” For the oppression will stop, and destruction will cease, those who trample will disappear from the 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 A throne will be established in covenant faithfulness; and one from David's tent will faithfully sit there. He will judge as he seeks justice and does righteousness.
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 have heard of Moab's pride, his arrogance, his boasting, and his anger. But his boastings are empty words.
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 So Moab wails for Moab—they all wail! Mourn, you who are utterly destroyed, for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.
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 fields of Heshbon have dried up as well as the vines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled the choice vines that reached to Jazer and spread into the desert. Its shoots spread abroad; they went over to the 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 Indeed I will weep along with Jazer for the vineyard of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh. For on your fields of summer fruits and harvest I have ended the shouts of joy.
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 Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruit tree groves; and there is no singing, or shouts in the vineyards. No one treads out wine in the presses, for I have put an end to the shouts of the one who treads.
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 So my heart sighs like a harp for Moab, and my inward being for 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 When Moab wears himself out on the high place and enters his temple to pray, his prayers will accomplish nothing.
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 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab previously.
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 Again Yahweh speaks, “Within three years, the glory of Moab will disappear; in spite of his many people, the remnant will be very few and insignificant.”
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
