イザヤ書 17
1 ダマスコについての託宣。見よ、ダマスコは町の姿を失って、荒塚となる。
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, And it has been a heap—a ruin.
2 その町々はとこしえに捨てられ、家畜の群れの住む所となって、伏しやすむが、これを脅かす者はない。
The cities of Aroer are forsaken, They are for droves, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.
3 エフライムのとりではすたり、ダマスコの主権はやみ、スリヤの残れる者は、イスラエルの子らの栄光のように消えうせると万軍の主は言われる。
And the fortress has ceased from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Aram are as the glory of the sons of Israel, A declaration of YHWH of Hosts!
4 その日、ヤコブの栄えは衰え、その肥えたる肉はやせ、
And it has come to pass in that day, The glory of Jacob waxes poor, And the fatness of his flesh waxes lean.
5 あたかも刈入れ人がまだ刈らない麦を集め、かいなをもって穂を刈り取ったあとのように、レパイムの谷で穂を拾い集めたあとのようになる。
And it has come to pass, As the gathering of the standing grain by the reaper, And his arm reaps the ears, And it has come to pass, As the gathering of the ears in the Valley of Rephaim,
6 オリブの木を打つとき、二つ三つの実をこずえに残し、あるいは四つ五つをみのり多き木の枝に残すように、とり残されるものがあるとイスラエルの神、主は言われる。
And gleanings have been left in him, As the surrounding of an olive, Two—three berries on the top of a branch, Four—five on the fruitful boughs, A declaration of YHWH, God of Israel!
7 その日、人々はその造り主を仰ぎのぞみ、イスラエルの聖者に目をとめ、
In that day man looks to His Maker, Indeed, his eyes look to the Holy One of Israel,
8 おのれの手のわざである祭壇を仰ぎのぞまず、おのれの指が造ったアシラ像と香の祭壇とに目をとめない。
And he does not look to the altars. The work of his own hands, And that which his own fingers made, He does not see—the Asherim and the images.
9 その日、彼らの堅固な町々は昔イスラエルの子らのゆえに捨て去られたヒビびとおよびアモリびとの荒れ跡のように荒れ地になる。
In that day the cities of his strength are As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It has also been a desolation.
10 これはあなたがたが自分の救の神を忘れ、自分の避け所なる岩を心にとめなかったからだ。それゆえ、あなたがたは美しい植物を植え、異なる神の切り枝をさし、
Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, And have not remembered the Rock of your strength, Therefore you plant plants of pleasantness, And sow it with a strange shoot,
11 その植えた日にこれを成長させ、そのまいた朝にこれを花咲かせても、その収穫は悲しみと、いやしがたい苦しみの日にとび去る。
You cause your plant to become great in the day, And make your seed to flourish in the morning, The harvest [is] a heap in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.
12 ああ、多くの民はなりどよめく、海のなりどよめくように、彼らはなりどよめく。ああ、もろもろの国はなりとどろく、大水のなりとどろくように、彼らはなりとどろく。
Woe [to] the multitude of many peoples, They sound as the sounding of seas; And the roaring of nations, As the roaring of mighty waters [that] make a crashing.
13 もろもろの国は多くの水のなりとどろくように、なりとどろく。しかし、神は彼らを懲しめられる。彼らは遠くのがれて、風に吹き去られる山の上のもみがらのように、また暴風にうず巻くちりのように追いやられる。
Nations crash as the roaring of many waters, And He rebuked them, And they fled far off, And were pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a windstorm.
14 夕暮には、見よ、恐れがある。まだ夜の明けないうちに彼らはうせた。これはわれわれをかすめる者の受くべき分、われわれを奪う者の引くべきくじである。
At evening, behold, terror, before morning it is not, This [is] the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!
