イザヤ書 14
1 主はヤコブをあわれみ、イスラエルを再び選んで、これをおのれの地に置かれる。異邦人はこれに加わって、ヤコブの家に結びつらなり、
For YHWH loves Jacob, And has fixed again on Israel, And given them rest on their own land, And the sojourner has been joined to them, And they have been admitted to the house of Jacob.
2 もろもろの民は彼らを連れてその所に導いて来る。そしてイスラエルの家は、主の地で彼らを男女の奴隷とし、さきに自分たちを捕虜にした者を捕虜にし、自分たちをしえたげた者を治める。
And peoples have taken them, And have brought them to their place, And the house of Israel has inherited them, On the land of YHWH, For menservants and for maidservants, And they have been captors of their captors, And have ruled over their exactors.
3 主があなたの苦労と不安とを除き、またあなたが服した苦役を除いて、安息をお与えになるとき、
And it has come to pass, In the day of YHWH’s giving rest to you, From your grief, and from your trouble, And from the sharp bondage, That has been served on you,
4 あなたはこのあざけりの歌をとなえ、バビロンの王をののしって言う、「あの、しえたげる者は全く絶えてしまった。あの、おごる者は全く絶えてしまった。
That you have taken up this allegory Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, “How the exactor has ceased,
5 主は悪い者のつえと、つかさびとの笏を折られた。
The golden one has ceased. YHWH has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulers.
6 彼らは憤りをもってもろもろの民を絶えず撃っては打ち、怒りをもってもろもろの国を治めても、そのしえたげをとどめる者がなかった。
He who is striking peoples in wrath, A striking without intermission, He who is ruling nations in anger, Pursuing without restraint!
7 全地はやすみを得、穏やかになり、ことごとく声をあげて歌う。
At rest—all the earth has been quiet, They have broken forth [into] singing.
8 いとすぎおよびレバノンの香柏でさえもあなたのゆえに喜んで言う、『あなたはすでに倒れたので、もはや、きこりが上ってきて、われわれを攻めることはない』。
Even firs have rejoiced over you, Cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you have lain down, The hewer does not come up against us.
Sheol beneath has been troubled at you, To meet your coming in, It is waking up Rephaim for you, All chief ones of earth, It has raised up from their thrones All kings of nations. (Sheol h7585)
10 彼らは皆あなたに告げて言う、『あなたもまたわれわれのように弱くなった、あなたもわれわれと同じようになった』。
All of them answer and say to you, Even you have become weak like us! You have become like to us!
Your excellence has been brought down to Sheol, The noise of your stringed instruments, The worm has been spread out under you, Indeed, the worm is covering you. (Sheol h7585)
12 黎明の子、明けの明星よ、あなたは天から落ちてしまった。もろもろの国を倒した者よ、あなたは切られて地に倒れてしまった。
How you have fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.
13 あなたはさきに心のうちに言った、『わたしは天にのぼり、わたしの王座を高く神の星の上におき、北の果なる集会の山に座し、
And you said in your heart: I go up into the heavens, I raise my throne above the stars of God, And I sit on the mountain of meeting in the sides of the north.
14 雲のいただきにのぼり、いと高き者のようになろう』。
I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.
Only—you are brought down to Sheol, To the sides of the pit. (Sheol h7585)
16 あなたを見る者はつくづくあなたを見、あなたに目をとめて言う、『この人は地を震わせ、国々を動かし、
Your beholders look to you, they attend to you, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?
17 世界を荒野のようにし、その都市をこわし、捕えた者をその家に解き帰さなかった者であるのか』。
He has made the world as a wilderness, And he has broken down his cities, He did not open the house of his bound ones.
18 もろもろの国の王たちは皆尊いさまで、自分の墓に眠る。
All kings of nations—all of them, Have lain down in glory, each in his house,
19 しかしあなたは忌みきらわれる月足らぬ子のように墓のそとに捨てられ、つるぎで刺し殺された者でおおわれ、踏みつけられる死体のように穴の石に下る。
And you have been cast out of your grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down to the sons of the pit, As a carcass trodden down.
20 あなたは自分の国を滅ぼし、自分の民を殺したために、彼らと共に葬られることはない。どうか、悪を行う者の子孫はとこしえに名を呼ばれることのないように。
You are not united with them in burial, For you have destroyed your land, You have slain your people, The seed of evildoers is not named for all time.
21 先祖のよこしまのゆえに、その子孫のためにほふり場を備えよ。これは彼らが起って地を取り、世界のおもてに町々を満たすことのないためである」。
Prepare slaughter for his sons; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They do not rise, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world [with] cities.
22 万軍の主は言われる、「わたしは立って彼らを攻め、バビロンからその名と、残れる者、その子と孫とを断ち滅ぼす、と主は言う。
And I have risen up against them,” A declaration of YHWH of Hosts, “And have cut off, in reference to Babylon, Name and remnant, and continuator and successor,” A declaration of YHWH.
23 わたしはこれをはりねずみのすみかとし、水の池とし、滅びのほうきをもって、これを払い除く、と万軍の主は言う」。
“And have made it for a possession of a hedgehog, And ponds of waters, And swept it with the broom of destruction,” A declaration of YHWH of Hosts!
24 万軍の主は誓って言われる、「わたしが思ったように必ず成り、わたしが定めたように必ず立つ。
YHWH of Hosts has sworn, saying, “As I thought—so has it not been? And as I counseled—it stands;
25 わたしはアッスリヤびとをわが地で打ち破り、わが山々で彼を踏みにじる。こうして彼が置いたくびきはイスラエルびとから離れ、彼が負わせた重荷はイスラエルびとの肩から離れる」。
To break Asshur in My land, And I tread him down on My mountain, And his yoke has turned from off them, Indeed, his burden turns aside from off their shoulder.
26 これは全地について定められた計画である。これは国々の上に伸ばされた手である。
This [is] the counsel that is counseled for all the earth, And this [is] the hand that is stretched out for all the nations.
27 万軍の主が定められるとき、だれがそれを取り消すことができるのか。その手を伸ばされるとき、だれがそれを引きもどすことができるのか。
For YHWH of Hosts has purposed, And who makes void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who turns it back?”
28 アハズ王の死んだ年にこの託宣があった、
In the year of the death of King Ahaz was this burden:
29 「ペリシテの全地よ、あなたを打ったむちが折られたことを喜んではならない。へびの根からまむしが出、その実は飛びかけるへびとなるからだ。
“Do not rejoice, Philistia, all of you, That the rod of your striker has been broken, For from the root of a serpent comes out a viper, And its fruit [is] a flying, burning serpent.
30 いと貧しい者は食を得、乏しい者は安らかに伏す。しかし、わたしはききんをもってあなたの子孫を殺し、あなたの残れる者を滅ぼす。
And the firstborn of the poor have delighted, And the needy lie down in confidence, And I have put to death your root with famine, And it slays your remnant.
31 門よ、泣きわめけ。町よ、叫べ。ペリシテの全地よ、恐れのあまり消えうせよ、北から煙が来るからだ。その隊列からは、ひとりも脱落する者はない」。
Howl, O gate; cry, O city, You are melted, Philistia, all of you, For smoke has come from the north, And there is none alone in his set places.”
32 その国の使者たちになんと答えようか。「主はシオンの基をおかれた、その民の苦しむ者はこの中に避け所を得る」と答えよ。
And what does one answer the messengers of a nation? That YHWH has founded Zion, And the poor of His people take refuge in it!
