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 burden of the Valley of Vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
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 that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
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 fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled 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」。
Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Do not labor to comfort me for the destruction 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 confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the LORD of hosts, in the Valley of Vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains."
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。
Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
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。
It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
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 covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.
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、
You saw the breaches of the City of David, that they were many; and you gathered 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、
You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
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。
You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.
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、
In that day the LORD of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for shaved heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.
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 look, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die."
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。
The LORD of hosts revealed himself in my ears, "Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die," says the LORD of hosts.
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、
Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is in charge of the house, 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。
'What are you doing here, and whom have you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock."
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、
Look, the LORD will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.
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。
He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you 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。
I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.
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、
It will happen in that day that I will call 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 clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house 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。
I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will 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、
I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father's house.
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』」。
They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.
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 hosts, "the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken it."
