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, and hear me, ye distant lands. Ye nations, gather your strength! Let them come near; then let them speak; Let us go together into judgment.
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 from the region of the East Him whom victory meeteth in his march? Who hath subdued nations before him, And given him dominion over kings? Who made their swords like dust, And their bows like driven stubble?
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 in safety, By a path which his foot had never trodden.
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? I, who have called the generations from the beginning, I, Jehovah, the first; And with the last also am I.
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
Distant nations saw it, and were afraid; The ends of the earth, and trembled; They drew near, and came together.
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
One helped another, And said to him, “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 carpenter encouraged the smith, He that smoothed with the hammer him that smote on the anvil, And said, “The soldering is good,” And he fastened it with nails that it might not fall.
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, O Israel, my servant, Thou, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Offspring 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
Thou, whom I have led by the hand from the ends of the earth, And called from the extremities thereof, And said to thee, “Thou art my servant, I have 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
Fear not, for I am with thee; Faint not, for I, thy God, will strengthen thee; I will help thee, and sustain thee, with my right hand of salvation!
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 who are enraged against thee Shall be ashamed and confounded; All that contend with thee Shall come to nothing and 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 seek and not find Them that contend with thee; They shall come to nothing, and be no more, Who make 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, Jehovah, am thy God, that holdeth thee by the right hand, That saith to thee, “Fear not, I am thy helper!”
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 Jacob, thou feeble people of Israel! I am thy helper, saith Jehovah; Thy redeemer is 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 will make thee a thrashing-wain, sharp and new, With double edges; Thou shalt thrash the mountains, and beat them small, And 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 winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, And the whirlwind shall scatter them. But thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, And 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 poor and needy seek water, and there is none, And their tongue is parched with thirst, I, Jehovah, 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 upon the bare hills, And fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, And the dry land 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 plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia, The myrtle and the olive-tree; I will place in the desert the cypress, The plane-tree and the larch 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 Jehovah hath done this, And that 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 forward your cause, saith Jehovah; Produce your strong reasons, 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 produce them, and show us what shall happen! Tell us what ye have predicted in times past, That we may consider, and know its fulfilment! Or declare to us 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
Let us hear what shall happen in future times, That we may know whether ye are gods; Do something, be it good or evil, That we may be astonished, and see 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
Behold, ye are less than nothing, And your work is less than naught; An abomination is he that chooseth you!
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 cometh; From the rising of the sun he calleth upon my name; He trampleth upon princes as upon mortar; As the potter treadeth down the 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 hath declared this from the beginning, that we might know it, And long ago, that we might say, It is true? There was not one that foretold it, not one that declared it, Not one that heard 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
I first said to Zion, Behold! behold them! And I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of glad 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
I looked, but there was no man; Even among them, but there was none that gave counsel; I inquired of them that they might give an answer;
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
But behold, they are all vanity; Their works are nothing; Wind and emptiness are their molten images.
