イザヤ書 41
1 もろもろの島よわがまへに默せ もろもろの民よあらたなる力をえて近づききたれ 而して語れ われら寄集ひて諭らはん
Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new strength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to judgment together.
2 たれか東より人をおこししや われは公義をもて之をわが足下に召し その前にもろもろの國を服せしめ また之にもろもろの王ををさめしめ かれらの劍をちりのごとくかれらの弓をふきさらるる藁のごとくならしむ
Who hath raised up the just one from the east, hath called him to follow him? he shall give the nations in his sight, and he shall rule over kings: he shall give them as the dust to his sword, as stubble driven by the wind, to his bow.
3 斯て彼はこれらのものを追 その足いまだ行ざる道をやすらかに過ゆけり
He shall pursue them, he shall pass in peace, no path shall appear after his feet.
4 このことは誰がおこなひしや たが成しや たが太初より世々の人をよびいだししや われヱホバなり 我ははじめなり終なり
Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last.
5 もろもろの島はこれを見ておそれ地の極はをののきて寄集ひきたれり
The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.
6 かれら互にその隣をたすけ その兄弟にいひけるは なんぢ雄々しかれ
Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage.
7 木匠は鐵工をはげまし鎚をもて平らぐるものは鐵碪をうつものを勵ましていふ 接合せいとよしと また釘をもて堅うして搖くことなからしむ
The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that forged at that time, saying: It is ready for soldering: and he strengthened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
8 然どわが僕イスラエルよ わが選めるヤコブわが友アブラハムの裔よ
But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend:
9 われ地のはてより汝をたづさへきたり地のはしよりなんぢを召 かくて汝にいへり 汝はわが僕われ汝をえらみて棄ざりきと
In whom I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the remote parts thereof have called thee, and said to thee: Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee, and have not cast thee away.
10 おそるるなかれ 我なんぢとともにあり 驚くなかれ我なんぢの神なり われなんぢを強くせん 誠になんぢを助けん 誠にわがただしき右手なんぢを支へん
Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.
11 視よなんぢにむかひて怒るものはみな恥をえて惶てふためかん なんぢと爭ふものは無もののごとくなりて滅亡せん
Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee.
12 なんぢ尋ぬるとも汝とたたかふ人々にあはざるべし 汝といくさする者はなきものの如くなりて虚しくなるべし
Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist thee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that war against thee.
13 そは我ヱホバなんぢの神はなんぢの右手をとりて汝にいふ 懼るるなかれ我なんぢを助けんと
For I am the Lord thy God, who take thee by the hand, and say to thee: Fear not, I have helped thee.
14 またヱホバ宣給ふ なんぢ虫にひとしきヤコブよイスラエルの人よ おそるるなかれ我なんぢをたすけん汝をあがなふものはイスラエルの聖者なり
Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I have helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel.
15 視よわれ汝をおほくの鋭歯ある新しき打麥の器となさん なんぢ山をうちて細微にし岡を粃糠のごとくにすべし
I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like a saw: thou shall thrash the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt make the hills as chaff.
16 なんぢ簸げば風これを巻さり 狂風これを吹ちらさん 汝はヱホバによりて喜びイスラエルの聖者によりて誇らん
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the Holy One of Israel thou shalt be joyful.
17 貧しきものと乏しきものと水を求めて水なくその舌かわきて衰ふるとき われヱホバ聽てこたへん 我イスラエルの神かれらを棄ざるなり
The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are none: their tongue hath been dry with thirst. I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 われ河をかぶろの山にひらき泉を谷のなかにいだし また荒野を池となし乾ける地を水の源と變ん
I will open rivers in the high bills, and fountains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters.
19 我あれのに香柏 合歎樹 もちの樹 および油の樹をうゑ沙漠に松 杉 及び黄楊をともに置ん
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together:
20 かくて彼等これを見てヱホバの手の作たまふところイスラエルの聖者の造り給ふ所なるをしり且こころをとめ且ともどもにさとらん
That they may see and know, and consider, and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21 ヱホバ言給く なんぢらの道理をとり出せ ヤコブの王いひたまはく 汝等のかたき證をもちきたれ
Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.
22 これを持來りてわれらに後ならんとする事をしめせ そのいやさきに成るべきことを示せ われら心をとめてその終をしらん 或はきたらんとする事をわれらに聞すべし
Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them, and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come.
23 なんぢら後ならんとすることをしめせ我儕なんぢらが神なることを知らん なんぢら或はさいはひし或はわざはひせよ 我儕ともに見ておどろかん
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.
24 視よなんぢらは無もののごとし なんぢらの事はむなし なんぢらを撰ぶものは憎むべきものなり
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.
25 われ一人を起して北よりきたらせ我が名をよぶものを東よりきたらしむ 彼きたりもろもろの長をふみて泥のごとくにし陶工のつちくれを踐がごとくにせん
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.
26 たれか初よりこれらの事をわれらに告てしらしめたりや たれか上古よりわれらに告てこは是なりといはしめたりや 一人だに告るものなし一人だに聞するものなし 一人だになんぢらの言をきくものなし
Who bath declared from the beginning, that we may know: and from time of old, that we may say: Thou art just. There is none that sheweth, nor that foretelleth, nor that heareth your words.
27 われ豫じめシオンにいはん なんぢ視よ かれらを見よと われ又よきおとづれを告るものをヱルサレムに予へん
The first shall say to Sion: Behold they are here, and to Jerusalem I will give an evangelist.
28 われ見るに一人だになし かれらのなかに謀略をまうくるもの一人だになし 我かれらに問どこたふるもの一人だになし
And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word.
29 かれらの爲はみな徒然にして無もののごとし その偶像は風なりまた空しきなり
Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.
