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 unto the heart of Jerusalem, And cry unto her, —That accomplished is her warfare, That accepted is her punishment, —That she hath received, at the hand of Yahweh, According to the full measure of 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 of one crying!—In the desert, prepare ye the way of Yahweh, —Make smooth in the waste plain 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
Let, every valley, be exalted, And every mountain and hill, be made low, —And, the steep ground become, level, And, the chain of hills—a 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
Then shall be revealed the glory of Yahweh, —And all flesh shall see it together, For, the mouth of Yahweh, hath spoken!
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 saying Cry! And one said—What should I cry? All flesh, is grass, And, all the grace thereof, like 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 hath withered The flower hath faded, Because, the breath of Yahweh, hath blown upon it! Surely 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, hath withered, The flower, hath faded, —But the word of our God, shall stand unto times age-abiding!
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
To a high mountain, get ye up, O herald—band of Zion, Lift high with strength your voice, O herald—band of Jerusalem, —Lift it high, do not fear, Say to the cities of Judah—Lo! 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
Lo! My Lord, Yahweh, as a mighty one, doth come, And, his own arm, is about to rule for him, —Lo! 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
Like a shepherd, his flock, will he tend, In his own arm, will he take up the lambs, And in his own bosom, will he carry [them], —Them which are with young, will he lead to a place of rest.
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, with the hollow of his hand, the waters. Or the heavens with a span, hath meted out, Or hath comprehended, in a measure, the dust of the earth, Or weighed, in scales, the mountains, Or 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 proved the spirit of Yahweh? Or being his counsellor hath been giving him knowledge?
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 hath he taken counsel—And he hath given him intelligence, And instructed him in the path of justice, —And taught him knowledge, And in the way of intelligence, hath been giving him 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
Lo! nations, Are us a drop on a bucket, And as fine dust on a balance, are accounted, —Lo! islands, like an atom, can he hoist;
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 to burn, —Nor, the beasts thereof sufficient for an ascending-sacrifice!
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 nations, are as nothing before him, —A thing of nought or a waste, are they accounted unto him?
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
Unto whom then can ye liken GOD? Or, what likeness, can 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 image, hath been cast by an artificer, And a goldsmith, with gold, overlayeth it, —And, chains of silver, he worketh.
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
The needy offerer, of a tree that will not rot, maketh choice, —A skilled artificer, seeketh he out for himself to construct an image that shall not totter,
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
Have ye never taken note? Have ye never heard? Hath it not from the beginning, been told you? Have ye not been led to discern, from 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 who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, While the inhabitants thereof are, as grass-hoppers, —Who stretcheth forth, as a curtain, the heavens, 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
Who delivereth dignitaries to nothingness, —Judges of earth, like a desolation, hath he made:
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
Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely hath their stock, begun to take root in the earth, When he hath just blown upon them and they have withered, And, a whirlwind, as though they had been chaff, carrieth them away.
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
Unto whom then, can ye liken me, or can I be equal? 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 on high your eyes—and see who hath created these, That bringeth forth, by number, their host, —To all of them by name, doth call, Because of the abundance of vigour and alertness of strength, not one, is missing!
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
Wherefore, shouldest thou say, O Jacob, or speak, O Israel, —Hidden is my path from Yahweh, And from my God, my vindication, will pass?
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
Hast thou not known, Hast thou not heard, That The God of age-past time—Yahweh The Creator of the ends of the earth Fainteth not neither groweth weary—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
Giving to him that fainteth, strength, And to him that hath no vigour, he causeth, power to abound?
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
Youths both faint and grow weary, And, young warriors—they fall, they 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 who wait for Yahweh, shall renew their strength, They shall mount on strong pinion like eagles, —They shall run and not grow weary, They shall walk and not faint.
