イザヤ書 13
1 アモツの子イザヤが示されたるバビロンにかかる重負の預言
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2 なんぢらかぶろの山に旂をたて聲をあげ手をふり彼等をまねきて貴族の門にいらしめよ
Set ye up an ensign upon the high mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 われ旣にきよめ別ちたるものに命じ わが丈夫ほこりかにいさめる者をよびて わが怒をもらさしむ
I have commanded My consecrated ones, yea, I have called My mighty ones for mine anger, even My proudly exulting ones.
4 山におほくの人の聲きこゆ大なる民あるがごとし もろもろの國民のよりつどひて喧めく聲きこゆ これ萬軍のヱホバたたかひの軍兵を召したまふなり
Hark, a tumult in the mountains, like as of a great people! Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
5 かれらはとほき國より天の極よりきたる これヱホバとその忿恚をもらす器とともに全國をほろぼさんとて來るなり
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of His indignation, to destroy the whole earth.
6 なんぢら泣號ぶべしヱホバの日ちかづき全能者よりいづる敗亡きたるべければなり
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
7 この故にすべての手はたれ凡の人のこころは消ゆかん
Therefore shall all hands be slack, and every heart of man shall melt.
8 かれら慴きおそれ艱難と憂とにせまられ 子をうまんとする婦のごとく苦しみ互におどろき 相みあひてその面は燄のごとくならん
And they shall be affrighted; pangs and throes shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail; they shall look aghast one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame.
9 視よヱホバの日苛くして忿恚とはげしき怒とをもて來り この國をあらしその中よりつみびとを絶滅さん
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel, and full of wrath and fierce anger; to make the earth a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it,
10 天のもろもろの星とほしの宿は光をはなたず 日はいでてくらく月は その光をかがやかさざるべし
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 われ惡ことのために世をつみし 不義のために惡きものをばつし 驕れるものの誇をとどめ 暴ぶるものの傲慢をひくくせん
And I will visit upon the world their evil, and upon the wicked their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the tyrants.
12 われ人をして精金よりもすくなくオフルの黄金よりも少なからしめん
I will make man more rare than fine gold, even man than the pure gold of Ophir.
13 かくて亦われ萬軍のヱホバの忿恚のとき烈しき怒りの日に天をふるはせ地をうごかしてその處をうしなはしむべし
Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of her place, for the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and for the day of His fierce anger.
14 かれらは逐るる鹿のごとく集むるものなき羊のごとくなりて各自おのれの民にかへりおのれの國にのがれゆかん
And it shall come to pass, that as the chased gazelle, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.
15 すべて其處にあるもの見出さるれば 刺れ 拘留らるるものは劍にたふされ
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is caught shall fall by the sword.
16 彼等の嬰兒はその目前にてなげくだかれ その家財はかすめうばはれ その妻はけがさるべし
Their babes also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 視よわれ白銀をもかへりみず黄金をもよろこばざるメデア人をおこして之にむかはしめん
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 かれらは弓をもて若きものを射くだき腹の實をあはれむことなく小子をみてをしむことなし
And their bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
19 すべての國の中にてうるはしくカルデヤ人がほこり飾となせるバビロンはむかし神にほろぼされたるソドム、ゴモラのごとくならん
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 ここに住むもの永くたえ世々にいたるまで居ものなく アラビヤ人もかしこに幕屋をはらず牧人もまたかしこにはその群をふさすることなく
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21 ただ猛獸かしこにふし 吼るものその家にみち 鴕鳥かしこにすみ 牡山羊かしこに躍らん
But wild-cats shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of ferrets; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22 豺狼その城のなかになき野犬えいぐわの宮にさけばん その時のいたるは近きにあり その日は延ることなかるべし
And jackals shall howl in their castles, and wild-dogs in the pleasant palaces; and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
