Isaiah 18

1 Ho, land shadowed [with] wings, That [is] beyond the rivers of Cush,

唉エテオピアの河の彼方なるさやさやと羽音のきこゆる地

2 That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, — Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled.

この地蒹のふねを水にうかべ海路より使者をつかはさんとてその使者にいへらく 疾走る使よなんぢら河々の流のわかるる國にゆけ丈たかく肌なめらかなる 始めより今にいたるまで懼るべく繩もてはかり人を踐にじる民にゆけ

3 All ye inhabitants of the world, And ye dwellers of earth, At the lifting up of an ensign on hills ye look, And at the blowing of a trumpet ye hear.

すべて世にをるもの地にすむものよ 山のうへに旗のたつとき汝等これを見ラッパの鳴響くときなんぢら之をきけ

4 For thus said Jehovah unto me, 'I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

そはヱホバわれに如此いひ給へりいはく 空はれわたり日てり收穫の熱むしてつゆけき雲のたるる間 われわが居所にしづかに居てながめん

5 For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath [one] cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.

收穫のまへにその芽またく生その花ぶだうとなりて熟せんとするとき かれ鎌をもて蔓をかり枝をきり去ん

6 They are left together to the ravenous fowl of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth, And summered on them hath the ravenous fowl, And every beast of the earth wintereth on them.

斯てみな山のたけきとりと地の獸とになげあたへらるべし 猛鳥そのうへにて夏をすごし地のけものその上にて冬をわたらん

7 At that time brought is a present to Jehovah of Hosts, A nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the beginning hitherto, A nation meting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled, Unto the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts — mount Zion!'

そのとき河々の流のわかるる國の丈たかく肌なめらかなる 始めより今にいたるまで懼るべく繩もてはかり人をふみにじる民より 萬軍のヱホバにささぐる禮物をたづさへて 萬軍のヱホバの聖名のところシオンの山にきたるべし