イザヤ書 44
1 されどわが僕ヤコブよわが撰みたるイスラエルよ今きけ
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.
2 なんぢを創造し なんぢを胎内につくり又なんぢを助くるヱホバ如此いひたまふ わがしもベヤコブよわが撰みたるヱシュルンよおそるるなかれ
Thus says Jehovah who made thee, and formed thee from the womb, who will help thee: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
3 われ渇けるものに水をそそぎ乾たる地に流をそそぎ わが靈をなんぢの子輩にそそぎ わが恩惠をなんぢの裔にあたふべければなり
For I will pour water upon him who is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.
4 斯てかれらは草のなかにて川のほとりの柳のごとく生そだつべし
And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
5 ある人はいふ我はヱホバのものなりと ある人はヤコブの名をとなへん ある人はヱホバの有なりと手にしるしてイスラエルの名をなのらん
One shall say, I am Jehovah's, and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe with his hand to Jehovah, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
6 ヱホバ、イスラエルの王イスラエルをあがなふもの萬軍のヱホバ如此いひたまふ われは始なりわれは終なり われの外に神あることなし
Thus says Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.
7 我いにしへの民をまうけしより以來 たれかわれのごとく後事をしめし又つげ又わが前にいひつらねんや 試みに成んとすること來らんとすることを告よ
And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? And let them declare the things that are coming, and that shall come to pass.
8 なんぢら懼るるなかれ慴くなかれ 我いにしへより聞せたるにあらずや告しにあらずや なんぢらはわが證人なり われのほか神あらんや 我のほかには磐あらず われその一つだに知ことなし
Fear ye not, nor be afraid. Have I not declared to thee of old, and shown it? And ye are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Yea, there is no Rock. I know not any.
9 偶像をつくる者はみな空しく かれらが慕ふところのものは益なし その證を見るものは見ことなく知ことなし 斯るがゆゑに恥をうくべし
Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.
10 たれか神をつくり又えきなき偶像を鑄たりしや
Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing?
11 視よその伴侶はみなはぢん その匠工らは人なり かれら皆あつまりて立ときはおそれてもろともに恥るなるべし
Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame, and the workmen. They are of men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They shall fear. They shall be put to shame together.
12 鐵匠は斧をつくるに炭の火をもてこれをやき鎚もてこれを鍛へつよき碗をもてこれをうちかたむ 饑れば力おとろへ水をのまざればつかれはつべし
The smith makes an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails. He drinks no water, and is faint.
13 木匠はすみなはをひきはり朱にてゑがき鐁にてけづり文回をもて畫き 之を人の形にかたどり人の美しき容にしたがひて造り 而して家のうちに安置す
The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. And he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
14 あるひは香柏をきりあるひは槲をとり あるひは橿をとり 或ははやしの樹のなかにて一をえらび あるひは杉をうゑ雨をえて長たしむ
He hews down cedars for him, and takes the holm tree and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.
15 而して人これを薪となし之をもておのが身をあたため又これを燃してパンをやき又これを神につくりてをがみ偶像につくりてその前にひれふす
Then it shall be for a man to burn. And he takes of it, and warms himself. Yea, he kindles it, and bakes bread. Yea, he makes a god, and worships it. He makes it a graven image, and falls down to it.
16 その半は火にもやしその半は肉をにて食ひ あるひは肉をあぶりてくひあき また身をあたためていふ ああ我あたたまれり われ熱きをおぼゆ
He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it he eats flesh. He roasts roast, and is satisfied. Yea, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.
17 斯てその餘をもて神につくり偶像につくりてその前にひれふし之ををがみ之にいのりていふ なんぢは吾神なり我をすくへと
And the residue of it he makes a god, even his graven image. He falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for thou are my god.
18 これらの人は知ことなく悟ることなし その眼ふさがりて見えず その心とぢてあきらかならず
They do not know, nor do they consider. For he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
19 心のうちに思ふことをせず智識なく明悟なきがゆゑに我そのなかばを火にもやしその炭火のうへにパンをやき肉をあぶりて食ひ その木のあまりをもて我いかで憎むべきものを作るべけんや 我いかで木のはしくれに俯伏すことをせんやといふ者もなし
And none calls to mind, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire. Yea, I have also baked bread upon the coals of it. I have roasted flesh and eaten it. And shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
20 かかる人は灰をくらひ 迷へる心にまどはされて己がたましひを救ふあたはず またわが右手にいつはりあるにあらずやとおもはざるなり
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
21 ヤコブよ イスラエルよ 此等のことを心にとめよ 汝はわが僕なり 我なんぢを造れり なんぢわが僕なり イスラエルよ我はなんぢを忘れじ
Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou are my servant. I have formed thee. Thou are my servant, O Israel, thou shall not be forgotten by me.
22 我なんぢの愆を雲のごとくに消し なんぢの罪を霧のごとくにちらせり なんぢ我にかへれ我なんぢを贖ひたればなり
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed thee.
23 天よ うたうたへヱホバこのことを成たまへり 下なる地よよばはれ もろもろの山よ林およびその中のもろもろの木よ こゑを發ちてうたふべし ヱホバはヤコブを贖へり イスラエルのうちに榮光をあらはし給はん
Sing, O ye heavens, for Jehovah has done it. Shout, ye lower parts of the earth. Break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein. For Jehovah has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
24 なんぢを贖ひなんぢを胎内につくれるヱホバかく言たまふ 我はヱホバなり我よろづのものを創造し ただ我のみ天をのべ みづから地をひらき
Thus says Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he who formed thee from the womb: I am Jehovah, who makes all things, who stretches forth the heavens alone, who spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?),
25 いつはるものの豫兆をむなしくし卜者をくるはせ智者をうしろに退けてその知識をおろかならしむ
who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad, who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish,
26 われわが僕のことばを遂しめ わが使者のはかりごとを成しめ ヱルサレムについては民また住はんといひ ユダのもろもろの邑については重ねて建らるべし我その荒廢たるところを舊にかへさんといふ
who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited, and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it,
27 また淵に命ず かわけ我なんぢのもろもろの川をほさんと
who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers,
28 又クロスについては彼はわが牧者すべてわが好むところを成しむる者なりといひ ヱルサレムについてはかさねて建られその宮の基すゑられんといふ
who says of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built, and of the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
