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
But now listen, O Jacob My servant, 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
This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, 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 on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your 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
They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
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 will say, ‘I belong to the LORD,’ another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ and will take 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 the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
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
Who then is like Me? Let him say so! Let him declare his case before Me, since I established an ancient people. Let him foretell the things to come, and what is to take place.
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
Do not tremble or fear. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are My witnesses! Is there any God but Me? There is no other Rock; I know not one.”
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
All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are 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 fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him 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 companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are only human. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will all be brought to terror and shame.
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 blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows 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 woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
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 cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
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
It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread; he even fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows 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 half of it in the fire, and he roasts meat on that half. He eats the roast and is satisfied. Indeed, he warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see 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
From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you 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 comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so 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 no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
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. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
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, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you.
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 your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
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 for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory 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 the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
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 foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
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 message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
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 depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
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, ‘My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,’ who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Let its foundation be laid.’”
