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 hear, 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 the Lord God that made you, and he that formed you from the womb; You shall yet be helped: fear not, my servant Jacob; and beloved Israel, 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 give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land: I will put my Spirit upon your seed, and my blessings upon your children:
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 as grass between brooks, and as willows on [the banks of] running water.
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 God's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand, I am God's, and shall call 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 God the King of Israel, and the God of hosts that delivered him; I am the first, and I am hereafter: beside 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
Who is like me? let him stand, and call, and declare, and prepare for me from the time that I made man for ever; and let them tell you the things that are coming before they arrive.
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
Hide not yourselves, nor go astray: have you not heard from the beginning, and [have not] I told you? you are witnesses if there is a God beside me.
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
But they that framed [false gods] did not then listen; and they that graved [images] are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed
10 たれか神をつくり又えきなき偶像を鑄たりしや
that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:
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
and all by whom they were made are withered: yes, let all the deaf be gathered from [amongst] men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded 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
For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions [the idol] with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm: and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.
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 artificer having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the 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 cuts wood out of the forest, which the Lord planted, [even] a pine tree, and the rain made 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
that it might be for men to burn: and having taken part of it he warms himself; yes, they burn part of it, and bake loaves thereon; and [of] the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them.
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
Half thereof he burns in the fire, and with half of it he bakes loaves on the coals; and having roasted flesh on it he eats, and is satisfied, and having warmed himself he says, I am comfortable, for I have warmed myself, and 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 rest he makes a graven god, and worships, and prays, saying, Deliver 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 have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart.
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 one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burnt up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on the coals thereof and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.
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
Know you that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul: see, you will not say, [There is 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 you are my servant; I have formed you [to be] my servant: and do you, Israel, not forget 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
For behold, I have blotted out as a cloud your transgressions, and your sin as darkness: turn to me, and I will redeem 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
Rejoice, you heavens; for God has had mercy upon Israel: sound the trumpet, you foundations of the earth: you mountains, shout [with] joy, you hills, and all the trees therein: for God has redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.
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 that redeems you, and who formed you from the womb, I am the Lord that performs all things: I stretched out the heaven alone, and established 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 else will frustrate the tokens of those that have divining spirits, and prophecies from the heart of [man]? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;
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
and confirming the word of his servant, and verifying the counsel of his messengers: who says to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Idumea, You shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth.
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, You shall be dried up, and I will dry up the 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 bids Cyrus be wise, and he shall perform all my will: who says to Jerusalem, You shall be built, and I will lay the foundation of my holy house.
