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 ye, comfort ye, my people, Saith your 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 ye encouragement to Jerusalem, and declare to her, That her hard service is ended; That her iniquity is expiated; That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all 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
A voice crieth: “Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; Make straight in the desert a highway for 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 exalted, And every mountain and hill be made low; The crooked shall become straight, And the rough places plain.
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
For the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of Jehovah hath 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
A voice said, Proclaim! And I said, What shall I proclaim? All flesh is grass, And all its comeliness as the flower of the field.
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
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, When the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it. Truly the people is grass.
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 withereth, the flower fadeth, But the word of our God shall stand forever.
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
Get thee up on the high mountain, O thou that bringest glad tidings to Zion; Lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem; Lift it up; be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, 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 Jehovah shall come with might, And his arm shall rule for him; Behold, his reward is with him, And his recompense 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 feed his flock like a shepherd; He shall gather up the lambs in his arms, And carry them in his bosom, And gently lead the nursing ewes.
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 hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, And meted out the heavens with his span, And gathered the dust of the earth into a measure, And weighed the mountains in scales, And the hills 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 hath searched out the spirit of Jehovah, Or, being his counsellor, hath taught 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
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, And taught him the path of justice, And taught him knowledge, And showed 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
Behold, the nations are as a drop from a bucket, And are accounted as the small dust of the balance; Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing,
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 Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, Nor its beasts for a 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
All the nations are as nothing before him; They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
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 then will ye liken God, And what likeness will ye compare unto 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
The workman casteth an image, And the smith overlayeth it with gold, And casteth for it silver chains.
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
He that is too poor to make an oblation Chooseth a piece of wood that will not rot; He seeketh for himself a skilful artificer, To prepare an image that shall 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
Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have ye not considered 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 sitteth above the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants are to him as grasshoppers; That stretcheth out the heavens as a canopy, And spreadeth them 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
That bringeth princes to nothing, And reduceth the rulers of the earth to vanity.
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
Yea, scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, Scarcely hath their stem taken root in the ground, When He bloweth upon them and they wither, And the whirlwind beareth them away like stubble.
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
To whom then will ye liken me, And to whom shall I be compared? Saith 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 to the heavens, and behold! Who hath created these? He draweth forth their host by number, He calleth them all by name; Through the greatness of his strength and the mightiness of his power, Not one of them faileth to appear.
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
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, “My way is hidden from Jehovah, My cause passeth by before my God”?
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
Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Jehovah is an everlasting God, The creator of the ends of the earth; He fainteth not, nor is he weary; His understanding is unsearchable.
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 giveth power to the faint; To the feeble abundant strength.
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
The youths shall faint and be weary, And the young warriors shall utterly fall.
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 trust in Jehovah shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles; They shall run and not be weary; They shall walk and not faint.
