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
Keep silence before mee, O ylands, and let the people renue their strength: let the come neere, and let them speake: let vs come together into iudgement.
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 raised vp iustice from the East, and called him to his foote? and gaue the nations before him, and subdued the Kings? he gaue them as dust to his sword, and as scattered stubble vnto his bowe.
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 pursued them, and passed safely by the way that he had not gone with his feete.
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 it? he that calleth the generations from the beginning. I the Lord am the first, and with the last I am ye same.
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 yles sawe it, and did feare, and the ends of the earth were abashed, drew neere, 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
Euery man helped his neighbour, and saide to his brother, Be strong.
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
So the workeman comforted the founder, and he that smote with ye hammer, him that smote by course, saying, It is ready for the sodering, and he fastened it with nayles that it shoulde not be mooued.
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 seruant, and thou Iaakob, whom I haue chosen, the seede 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
For I haue taken thee from the endes of the earth, and called thee before the chiefe thereof, and saide vnto thee, Thou art my seruant: I haue chosen thee, and 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
Feare thou not, for I am with thee: be not afraide, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, and helpe thee, and will susteine thee with the right hand of my iustice.
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
Beholde, all they that prouoke thee, shalbe ashamed, and confounded: they shalbe as nothing, and they that striue with thee, shall perish.
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 seeke them and shalt not finde them: to wit, the men of thy strife, for they shall be as nothing, and the men that warre against thee, as a thing of nought.
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 the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying vnto thee, Feare not, I wil helpe 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
Feare not, thou worme, Iaakob, and ye men of Israel: I wil helpe thee, sayth 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
Behold, I wil make thee a roller, and a newe threshing instrument hauing teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountaines, and bring them to pouder, and shalt make the hilles as chaffe.
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 fanne them, and the winde shall carie them away, and the whirlewinde shall scatter them: and thou shalt reioyce in the Lord, and shalt glory in the holy one of Israel.
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
When the poore and the needy seeke water, and there is none (their tongue faileth for thirst: I the Lord will heare 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 riuers in the toppes of the hils, and fountaines in the middes of the valleis: I will make the wildernesse as a poole of water, and the waste land as springs of water.
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 set in the wildernesse the cedar, the shittah tree, and the mirre tree, and the pine tree, and I will set in the wildernesse the firre tree, the elme and the boxe 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
Therefore let them see and knowe, and let them consider and vnderstande 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
Stand to your cause, saith the Lord: bring forth your strong reasons, saith ye King of Iaakob.
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 bring foorth, and let them tell vs what shall come: let them shew the former things what they be, that wee may consider them, and knowe the latter ende of them: either declare vs things for 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
Shewe the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yea, doe good or doe euill, that we may declare it, and beholde it 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
Beholde, ye are of no value, and your making is of naught: man hath chosen an abomination by them.
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 haue raised vp from the North, and he shall come: from the East sunne shall he cal vpon my Name, and shall come vpon princes as vpon clay, and as the potter treadeth myre vnder the foote.
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 hath declared from the beginning, that we may knowe? or before time, that we may say, He is righteous? Surely there is none that sheweth: surely there is none that declareth: surely there is none that heareth your wordes.
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
I am the first, that saieth to Zion, Beholde, beholde them: and I will giue to Ierusalem one that shall bring good tidings.
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
But when I behelde, there was none, and when I inquired of them, there was no counsellor, and when I demaunded of them, they answered not a woorde.
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
Beholde, they are all vanitie: their worke is of nothing, their images are wind and confusion.
