イザヤ書 22
1 幻の谷についての託宣。あなたがたはなぜ、みな屋根にのぼったのか。
The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?
2 叫び声で満ちている者、騒がしい都、喜びに酔っている町よ。あなたのうちの殺された者はつるぎで殺されたのではなく、また戦いに倒れたのでもない。
You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.
3 あなたのつかさたちは皆共にのがれて行ったが、弓を捨てて捕えられた。彼らは遠く逃げて行ったが、あなたのうちの見つかった者はみな捕えられた。
All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.
4 それゆえ、わたしは言った、「わたしを顧みてくれるな、わたしはいたく泣き悲しむ。わが民の娘の滅びのために、わたしを慰めようと努めてはならない」。
For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.
5 万軍の神、主は幻の谷に騒ぎと、踏みにじりと、混乱の日をこさせられる。城壁はくずれ落ち、叫び声は山に聞える。
For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...
6 エラムは箙を負い、戦車と騎兵とをもってきたり、キルは盾をあらわした。
And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.
7 あなたの最も美しい谷は戦車で満ち、騎兵はもろもろの門にむかって立った。
And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.
8 ユダを守るおおいは取り除かれた。その日あなたは林の家の武具を仰ぎ望んだ。
He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.
9 またあなたがたはダビデの町の破れの多いのを見、下の池の水を集め、
And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.
10 エルサレムの家を数え、またその家をこわして城壁を築き、
And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.
11 一つの貯水池を二つの城壁の間に造って古池の水をひいた。しかしあなたがたはこの事をなされた者を仰ぎ望まず、この事を昔から計画された者を顧みなかった。
And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.
12 その日、万軍の神、主は泣き悲しみ、頭をかぶろにし、荒布をまとうことを命じられたが、
And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
13 見よ、あなたがたは喜び楽しみ、牛をほふり、羊を殺し、肉を食い、酒を飲んで言う、「われわれは食い、かつ飲もう、明日は死ぬのだから」。
But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
14 万軍の主はみずからわたしの耳に示された、「まことに、この不義はあなたがたが死ぬまで、ゆるされることはない」と万軍の神、主は言われる。
And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
15 万軍の神、主はこう言われる、「さあ、王の家をつかさどるこの執事セブナに行って言いなさい、
The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,
16 『あなたはここになんの係わりがありますか。あなたはだれの縁故でここに自分のために墓を掘ったのですか。あなたは高い所に墓を掘り、岩をうがって自分のためにすみかを造った。
Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?
17 強い人よ、見よ、主はあなたを激しくなげ倒される。主はあなたを堅くつかまえ、
See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,
18 ぐるぐるまわして、まりのように広々した地に投げられる。主人の家の恥となる者よ、あなたはそこで死に、あなたの華麗な車はそこに残る。
Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!
19 わたしは、あなたをその職から追い、その地位から引きおろす。
And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.
20 その日、わたしは、わがしもべヒルキヤの子エリアキムを呼んで、
And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah:
21 あなたの衣を着せ、あなたの帯をしめさせ、あなたの権力を彼の手にゆだねる。彼はエルサレムの民とユダの家との父となる。
And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.
22 わたしはまたダビデの家のかぎを彼の肩に置く。彼が開けば閉じる者なく、彼が閉じれば開く者はない。
And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.
23 わたしは彼を堅い所に打ったくぎのようにする。そして彼はその父の家の誉の座となり、
And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.
24 その父の家のすべての重さは彼の上にかかる。すなわちその子、その孫およびすべての小さい器、鉢からすべてのびんにいたるまでみな、彼の上にかかる』」。
And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.
25 万軍の主は言われる、「その日、堅い所に打ったくぎは抜け、切られて落ちる。その上にかかっている荷もまた取り去られる」と主は語られた。
In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it.
