イザヤ書 47
1 バビロンの處女よ くだりて塵のなかにすわれ カルデヤ人のむすめよ座にすわらずして地にすわれ 汝ふたたび婀娜にして嬌なりととなへらるることなからん
“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
2 礱をとりて粉をひけ 面帕をとりさり袿をぬぎ髓をあらはして河をわたれ
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
3 なんぢの肌はあらはれなんぢの恥はみゆべし われ仇をむくいて人をかへりみず
Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”
4 われらを贖ひたまふ者はその名を萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの聖者といふ
Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name— is the Holy One of Israel.
5 カルデヤ人のむすめよ なんぢ口をつぐみてすわれ 又くらき所にいりてをれ 汝ふたたびもろもろの國の主母ととなへらるることなからん
“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of Chaldea. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.
6 われわが民をいきどほりわが產業をけがして之をなんぢの手にあたへたり 汝これに憐憫をほどこさず年老たるもののうへに甚だおもき軛をおきたり
I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
7 汝いへらく我とこしへに主母たらんと 斯てこれらのことを心にとめず亦その終をおもはざりき
You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
8 なんぢ歡樂にふけり安らかにをり 心のうちにただ我のみにして我のほかに誰もなく我はやもめとなりてをらず また子をうしなふことを知まじとおもへる者よなんぢ今きけ
So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’
9 子をうしなひ寡婦となるこの二つのこと一日のうちに俄になんぢに來らん汝おほく魔術をおこなひひろく呪詛をほどこすと雖もみちみちて汝にきたるべし
These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
10 汝おのれの惡によりたのみていふ 我をみるものなしと なんぢの智慧となんぢの聰明とはなんぢを惑せたり なんぢ心のうちにおもへらくただ我のみにして我のほかに誰もなしと
You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
11 この故にわざはひ汝にきたらん なんぢ呪ひてこれを除くことをしらず 艱難なんぢに落きたらん 汝これをはらふこと能はず なんぢの思ひよらざる荒廢にはかに汝にきたるべし
But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
12 今なんぢわかきときより勤めおこなひたる呪詛とおほくの魔術とをもて立むかふべしあるひは益をうることあらん あるひは敵をおそれしむることあらん
So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
13 なんぢは謀畧おほきによりて倦つかれたり かの天をうらなふもの星をみるもの新月をうらなふ者もし能はば いざたちて汝をきたらんとする事よりまぬかれしむることをせよ
You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you— your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.
14 彼らは藁のごとくなりて火にやかれん おのれの身をほのほの勢力よりすくひいだすこと能はず その火は身をあたたむべき炭火にあらず又その前にすわるべき火にもあらず
Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
15 汝がつとめて行ひたる事は終にかくのごとくならん 汝のわかきときより汝とうりかひしたる者おのおのその所にさすらひゆきて一人だになんぢを救ふものなかるべし
This is what they are to you— those with whom you have labored and traded from youth— each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.
