イザヤ書 18

1 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

Ho! thou land of rustling wings, Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia!

2 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

That sendest thy messengers upon the sea, In reed-boats upon the face of the waters: Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and fair, To a people terrible from the first and onward, To a mighty, victorious people, Whose land is divided by rivers!

3 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

All ye inhabitants of the world, ye that dwell on the earth, When the standard is lifted up on the mountains, behold! When the trumpet is sounded, hear!

4 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

For thus hath Jehovah said to me: “I will sit still, and look on from my dwelling-place, Like a serene heat when the sun shineth, Like a dewy cloud in the heat of harvest.”

5 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

But before the vintage, when the bud is gone, And the blossom is ripening into a swelling grape, He shall cut off the shoots with pruning-hooks, And the branches he shall take away and cut down.

6 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

They shall be left together to the ravenous birds of the mountains, And to the wild beasts of the earth. The ravenous birds shall summer upon it, And every wild beast of the earth shall winter upon it.

7 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

At that time shall gifts be brought to Jehovah of hosts From a nation tall and fair, From a people terrible from the first and onward, A mighty, victorious people, Whose land is divided by rivers, To the dwelling-place of Jehovah of hosts, to mount Zion.