イザヤ書 40
1 なんぢらの神いひたまはく なぐさめよ汝等わが民をなぐさめよ
Comfort you, comfort you my people, says God.
2 懇ろにヱルサレムに語り之によばはり告よ その服役の期すでに終り その咎すでに赦されたり そのもろもろの罪によりてヱホバの手よりうけしところは倍したりと
Speak, you priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord's hand double [the amount of] her sins.
3 よばはるものの聲きこゆ云く なんぢら野にてヱホバの途をそなへ沙漠にわれらの神の大路をなほくせよと
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.
4 もろもろの谷はたかくもろもろの山と岡とはひくくせられ 曲りたるはなほく崎嶇はたひらかにせらるべし
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked [ways] shall become straight, and the rough [places] plains.
5 斯てヱホバの榮光あらはれ人みな共にこれを見ん こはヱホバの口より語りたまへるなり
And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken [it].
6 聲きこゆ云く よばはれ答へていふ何とよばはるべきか いはく人はみな草なり その榮華はすべて野の花のごとし
The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass:
7 草はかれ花はしぼむ ヱホバの息そのうへに吹ければなり 實に民はくさなり
8 草はかれ花はしぼむ 然どわれらの神のことばは永遠にたたん
The grass withers, and the flower fades: but the word of our God abides for ever.
9 よき音信をシオンにつたふる者よ なんぢ高山にのぼれ 嘉おとづれをヱルサレムにつたふる者よ なんぢ強く聲をあげよ こゑを揚ておそるるなかれ ユダのもろもろの邑につけよ なんぢらの神きたり給へりと
O you that bring glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up your voice with strength, you that bring glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Juda, Behold your God!
10 みよ主ヱホバ能力をもちて來りたまはん その臂は統治めたまはん 賞賜はその手にあり はたらきの値はその前にあり
Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and [his] arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and [his] work before him.
11 主は牧者のごとくその群をやしなひ その臂にて小羊をいだき之をその懷中にいれてたづさへ乳をふくまする者をやはらかに導きたまはん
He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.
12 たれか掌心をもてもろもろの水をはかり指をのばして天をはかり また地の塵を量器にもり天秤をもてもろもろの山をはかり權衡をもてもろもろの岡をはかりしや
Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?
13 誰かヱホバの靈をみちびきその議士となりて敎しや
Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him?
14 ヱホバは誰とともに議りたまひしや たれかヱホバを聰くしこれに公平の道をまなばせ知識をあたへ明通のみちを示したりしや
Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgement, or who has taught him the way of understanding;
15 視よもろもろの國民は桶のひとしづくのごとく 權衡のちりのごとくに思ひたまふ島々はたちのぼる塵埃のごとし
since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, [and] shall be counted as spittle?
16 レバノンは柴にたらずそのなかの獸は燔祭にたらず
And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole burnt offering:
17 ヱホバの前にはもろもろの國民みななきにひとし ヱホバはかれらを無もののごとく空きもののごとく思ひたまふ
and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.
18 然ばなんぢら誰をもて神にくらべ いかなる肖像をもて神にたぐふか
To whom have you compared the Lord? and with what likeness have you compared him?
19 偶像はたくみ鑄てつくり 金工こがねをもて之をおほひ白銀をもて之がために鏈をつくれり
Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, [and] made it a similitude?
20 かかる寳物をそなへえざる貧しきものは朽まじき木をえらみ良匠をもとめてうごくことなき像をたたしむ
For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and [that so] that it should not be moved.
21 なんぢら知ざるか なんぢら聞ざるか 始よりなんぢらに傳へざりしか なんぢらは地の基をおきしときより悟らざりしか
Will you not know? will you not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have you not known the foundations of the earth?
22 ヱホバは地のはるか上にすわり地にすむものを蝗のごとく視たまふ おほぞらを薄絹のごとく布き これを住ふべき幕屋のごとくはり給ふ
[It is] he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched [it] out as a tent to dwell in:
23 又もろもろの君をなくならしめ地の審士をむなしくせしむ
he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.
24 かれらは僅かに植られ僅かに播れ その幹わづかに地に根ざししに 神そのうへを吹たまへば即ちかれて藁のごとく暴風にまきさらるべし
For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.
25 聖者いひ給はく さらばなんぢら誰をもて我にくらべ我にたぐふか
Now then to whom have you compared me, that I may be exalted? says the Holy One.
26 なんぢら眼をあげて高をみよ たれか此等のものを創造せしやをおもへ 主は數をしらべてその萬象をひきいだしおのおのの名をよびたまふ 主のいきほひ大なり その力のつよきがゆゑに一も缺ることなし
Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? [even] he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by [means of his] great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped you.
27 ヤコブよなんぢ何故にわが途はヱホバにかくれたりといふや イスラエルよ汝なにゆゑにわが訟はわが神の前をすぎされりとかたるや
For say not you, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, Israel, [saying], My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away [my] judgement, and has departed?
28 汝しらざるか聞ざるかヱホバはとこしへの神地のはての創造者にして倦たまふことなく また疲れたまふことなく その聰明こと測りがたし
And now, have you not known? have you not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.
29 疲れたるものには力をあたへ勢力なきものには強きをまし加へたまふ
He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.
30 年少きものもつかれてうみ壯んなるものも衰へおとろふ
For the young [men] shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice [men] shall be powerless:
31 然はあれどヱホバを俟望むものは新なる力をえん また鷲のごとく翼をはりてのぼらん 走れどもつかれず歩めども倦ざるべし
but they that wait on God shall renew [their] strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.
