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1 アッスリヤの王サルゴンからつかわされた最高司令官がアシドドに来て、これを攻め、これを取った年、
One year King Sargon of Assyria sent the chief commander of his army [to take his soldiers] to capture Ashdod [city in Philistia].
2 その時に主はアモツの子イザヤによって語って言われた、「さあ、あなたの腰から荒布を解き、足からくつを脱ぎなさい」。そこでイザヤはそのようにし、裸、はだしで歩いた。
At that time, Yahweh told me, “Take off the rough sackcloth that you have been wearing and take off your sandals.” [So] I did what he told me to do, and [then] I walked around naked and barefoot [for three years].
3 主は言われた、「わがしもべイザヤは三年の間、裸、はだしで歩き、エジプトとエチオピヤに対するしるしとなり、前ぶれとなったが、
[Then] Yahweh said this [to the people of Judah]: “My servant Isaiah has been walking around naked and barefoot for the past three years. That is to show the terrible disasters that [I will cause the people of] Egypt and Ethiopia to experience.
4 このようにエジプトびとのとりことエチオピヤびとの捕われ人とは、アッスリヤの王に引き行かれて、その若い者も老いた者もみな裸、はだしで、しりをあらわし、エジプトの恥を示す。
What will happen is that the [army of the] King of Assyria will [invade those countries and capture many of the people and] take them away as their prisoners. They will force all them, including both the young ones and the old ones, to walk naked and barefoot. They will [also] force them to have no clothes around their buttocks, which will cause [the people of] Egypt to be ashamed.
5 彼らはその頼みとしたエチオピヤのゆえに、その誇としたエジプトのゆえに恐れ、かつ恥じる。
Then the people of other countries who trusted that the armies of Egypt and Ethiopia would be able to help them will be very dismayed/confused and afraid/disappointed.
6 その日には、この海べに住む民は言う、『見よ、われわれが頼みとした国、すなわちわれわれがのがれて行って助けを求め、アッスリヤ王から救い出されようとした国はすでにこのとおりである。われわれはどうしてのがれることができようか』と。」
They will say, ‘We trusted that the armies of Egypt and Ethiopia [would help us and defend us, but they have been destroyed], so there is no way [RHQ] that we can escape from [being destroyed by the army of] the King of Assyria!’”

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