イザヤ書 42
1 わたしの支持するわがしもべ、わたしの喜ぶわが選び人を見よ。わたしはわが霊を彼に与えた。彼はもろもろの国びとに道をしめす。
See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
2 彼は叫ぶことなく、声をあげることなく、その声をちまたに聞えさせず、
He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.
3 また傷ついた葦を折ることなく、ほのぐらい灯心を消すことなく、真実をもって道をしめす。
He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.
4 彼は衰えず、落胆せず、ついに道を地に確立する。海沿いの国々はその教を待ち望む。
His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
5 天を創造してこれをのべ、地とそれに生ずるものをひらき、その上の民に息を与え、その中を歩む者に霊を与えられる主なる神はこう言われる、
God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:
6 「主なるわたしは正義をもってあなたを召した。わたしはあなたの手をとり、あなたを守った。わたしはあなたを民の契約とし、もろもろの国びとの光として与え、
I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:
7 盲人の目を開き、囚人を地下の獄屋から出し、暗きに座する者を獄屋から出させる。
To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
8 わたしは主である、これがわたしの名である。わたしはわが栄光をほかの者に与えない。また、わが誉を刻んだ像に与えない。
I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.
9 見よ、さきに預言した事は起った。わたしは新しい事を告げよう。その事がまだ起らない前に、わたしはまず、あなたがたに知らせよう」。
See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.
10 主にむかって新しき歌をうたえ。地の果から主をほめたたえよ。海とその中に満ちるもの、海沿いの国々とそれに住む者とは鳴りどよめ。
Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.
11 荒野とその中のもろもろの町と、ケダルびとの住むもろもろの村里は声をあげよ。セラの民は喜びうたえ。山の頂から呼ばわり叫べ。
Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.
12 栄光を主に帰し、その誉を海沿いの国々で語り告げよ。
Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in the sea-lands.
13 主は勇士のように出て行き、いくさ人のように熱心を起し、ときの声をあげて呼ばわり、その敵にむかって大能をあらわされる。
The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.
14 わたしは久しく声を出さず、黙して、おのれをおさえていた。今わたしは子を産もうとする女のように叫ぶ。わたしの息は切れ、かつあえぐ。
I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
15 わたしは山と丘とを荒し、すべての草を枯らし、もろもろの川を島とし、もろもろの池をからす。
I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.
16 わたしは目しいを彼らのまだ知らない大路に行かせ、まだ知らない道に導き、暗きをその前に光とし、高低のある所を平らにする。わたしはこれらの事をおこなって彼らを捨てない。
And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
17 刻んだ偶像に頼み、鋳た偶像にむかって「あなたがたは、われわれの神である」と言う者は退けられて、大いに恥をかく。
They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.
18 耳しいよ、聞け。目しいよ、目を注いで見よ。
Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
19 だれか、わがしもべのほかに目しいがあるか。だれか、わがつかわす使者のような耳しいがあるか。だれか、わが献身者のような目しいがあるか。だれか、主のしもべのような目しいがあるか。
Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant?
20 彼は多くの事を見ても認めず、耳を開いても聞かない。
Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.
21 主はおのれの義のために、その教を大いなるものとし、かつ光栄あるものとすることを喜ばれた。
It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.
22 ところが、この民はかすめられ、奪われて、みな穴の中に捕われ、獄屋の中に閉じこめられた。彼らはかすめられても助ける者がなく、物を奪われても「もどせ」と言う者もない。
But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.
23 あなたがたのうち、だれがこの事に耳を傾けるだろうか、だれが心をもちいて後のためにこれを聞くだろうか。
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?
24 ヤコブを奪わせた者はだれか。かすめる者にイスラエルをわたした者はだれか。これは主ではないか。われわれは主にむかって罪を犯し、その道に歩むことを好まず、またその教に従うことを好まなかった。
Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.
25 それゆえ、主は激しい怒りと、猛烈な戦いを彼らに臨ませられた。それが火のように周囲に燃えても、彼らは悟らず、彼らを焼いても、心にとめなかった。
For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.
