イザヤ書 24
1 視よヱホバこの地をむなしからしめ荒廢れしめこれを覆へしてその民をちらしたまふ
Watch out! The Lord is going to destroy the earth, to make it totally devastated. He's going to rip up the surface of the earth and scatter its inhabitants.
2 かくて民も祭司もひとしく 僕も主もひとしく 下婢も主婦もひとしく 買ものも賣ものもひとしく 貸ものも借ものもひとしく 利をはたるものも利をいだす者もひとしくこの事にあふべし
It will happen the same for everybody—whether people or priests, servants or their masters, maids or their mistresses, buyers or sellers, lenders or borrowers, creditors or debtors.
3 地はことごとく空しくことごとく掠められん こはヱホバの言たまへるなり
The earth will be completely laid waste and looted. This is what the Lord has said.
4 地はうれへおとろへ世は萎おとろへ地のたふときものも萎はてたり
The earth dries up and withers away; the world shrivels up and withers away, the high and mighty people shrivel up along with the earth.
5 民おきてにそむき法ををかし とこしへの契約をやぶりたるがゆゑに 地はその下にけがされたり
The earth is polluted by its people; they have flouted God's laws, violated his regulations, and broken the eternal agreement with him.
6 このゆゑに呪詛は地をのみつくしそこに住るものは罪をうけまた地の民はやかれて僅かばかり遺れり
That is why a curse is destroying the earth. The people suffer because of their guilt. The inhabitants of the earth are burned up and only a few survive.
7 あたらしき酒はうれへ葡萄はなえ 心たのしめるものはみな歎息せざるはなし
The new wine dries up, and the vine withers. All the people celebrating groan.
8 鼓のおとは寂まり歡ぶものの聲はやみ琴の音もまたしづまれり
The happy sound of tambourines is over; the noise of the party-goers has stopped; the delightful harp music has finished,
9 彼等はふたたび歌うたひ酒のまず濃酒はこれをのむものに苦くなるべし
People don't sing any more as they drink wine, and the beer tastes bitter.
10 騒ぎみだれたる邑はすでにやぶられ毎家はことごとく閉て人のいるなし
The chaotic city is falling apart; every house is barred shut to keep others out.
11 街頭には酒の故によりて叫ぶこゑあり すべての歡喜はくらくなり地のたのしみは去ゆけり
Crowds on the street are shouting, demanding to have wine. Joy turns into darkness. There's no happiness left on earth.
12 邑はあれすたれたる所のみのこり その門もこぼたれて破れぬ
The city is in a horrible state of ruin; its gates have been broken down.
13 地のうちにてもろもろの民のなかにて遺るものは橄欖の樹のうたれしのちの果の如く葡萄の収穫はてしのちの實のごとし
This is the way it's going to be all throughout the earth among the nations—only a few olives are left after the tree is shaken, only a few grapes are left to be gleaned after the harvest.
14 これらのもの聲をあげてよばはん ヱホバの稜威のゆゑをもて海より歡びよばはん
These survivors shout aloud and sing for joy. From the west they praise the Lord's majesty.
15 この故になんぢら東にてヱホバをあがめ 海のしまじまにてイスラエルの神ヱホバの名をあがむべし
From the east they glorify the Lord; from the sea shores they praise the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
16 われら地の極より歌をきけり いはく榮光はただしきものに歸すと／われ云らく我やせおとろへたり我やせおとろへたり 我はわざはひなるかな 欺騙者はあざむき欺騙者はいつはりをもて欺むけり
We hear songs coming from the ends of the earth, singing, “Glory to the God who does right.” But I'm miserable, miserable. Pity me! Deceitful people go on betraying, again and again.
17 地にすむものよ恐怖と陷阱と罟とはなんぢに臨めり
Terrors and pit-traps and snares are waiting for you, people of the earth.
18 おそれの聲をのがるる者はおとしあなに陷り おとしあなの中よりいづるものは罟にかかるべし そは高處の窓ひらけ地の基ふるひうごけばなり
Those who run away in terror will fall into a pit-trap, and those who escape from the pit-trap will be caught in a snare. Heaven's windows are opened; earth's foundations shake.
19 地は碎けにくだけ地はやぶれにやぶれ地は搖にゆれ
The earth is completely broken up; the earth is ripped apart, the earth is violently shaken.
20 地はゑへる者のごとく蹌きによろめき假廬のごとくふりうごく その罪はそのうへにおもく遂にたふれて再びおくることなし
The earth staggers to and fro like a drunk, and sways this way and that like a shelter. The guilt of its rebelliousness weighs heavily on it, and it collapses—it won't rise again.
21 その日ヱホバはたかき處にて高きところの軍兵を征め 地にて地のもろもろの王を征めたまはん
At that time the Lord will punish all the high heavenly beings and the kings of the earth.
22 かれらは囚人が阱にあつめらるるごとく集められて 獄中にとざされ多くの日をへてのち刑せらるべし
They will be brought together, prisoners in a pit. They will be imprisoned, and eventually they will be punished.
23 かくて萬軍のヱホバ、シオンの山およびヱルサレムにて統治め かつその長老たちのまへに榮光あるべければ 月は面あからみ日ははぢて色かはるべし
The moon will be embarrassed and the sun will be ashamed, for the Lord Almighty will reign in glory on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem in the presence of its leaders.
