イザヤ書 57
1 正しい者が滅びても、心にとめる人がなく、神を敬う人々が取り去られても、悟る者はない。正しい者は災の前に取り去られて、
The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
2 平安に入るからである。すべて正直に歩む者は、その床に休むことができる。
He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
3 しかし、あなたがた女魔法使の子よ、姦夫と遊女のすえよ、こちらへ近寄れ。
“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
4 あなたがたは、だれにむかって戯れをなすのか。だれにむかって口を開き、舌を出すのか。あなたがたは背信の子ら、偽りのすえではないか。
Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,
5 あなたがたは、かしの木の間、すべての青木の下で心をこがし、谷の中、岩のはざまで子どもを殺した。
you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
6 あなたは谷のなめらかな石を自分の嗣業とし、これを自分の分け前とし、これに灌祭をそそぎ、供え物をささげた。わたしはこれらの物によってなだめられようか。
Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?
7 あなたは高くそびえた山の上に自分の床を設け、またそこに登って行って犠牲をささげた。
On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
8 また戸および柱のうしろに、あなたのしるしを置いた。あなたはわたしを離れて自分の床をあらわし、それにのぼって、その床をひろくした。また彼らと契約をなし、彼らの床を愛し、その裸を見た。
You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.
You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
10 あなたは道の長いのに疲れても、なお「望みがない」とは言わなかった。あなたはおのが力の回復を得たので、衰えることがなかった。
You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint.
11 あなたはだれをおじ恐れて、偽りを言い、わたしを覚えず、また心におかなかったのか。わたしが久しく黙っていたために、あなたはわたしを恐れなかったのではなかったか。
“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?
12 わたしはあなたの義と、あなたのわざを告げ示そう、しかしこれらはあなたを益しない。
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
13 あなたが呼ばわる時、あなたが集めておいた偶像にあなたを救わせよ。風は彼らを運び去り、息は彼らを取り去る。しかしわたしに寄り頼む者は地を継ぎ、わが聖なる山をまもる。
When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you, but the wind will take them. A breath will carry them all away, but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”
14 主は言われる、「土を盛り、土を盛って道を備えよ、わが民の道から、つまずく物を取り去れ」と。
He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
15 いと高く、いと上なる者、とこしえに住む者、その名を聖ととなえられる者がこう言われる、「わたしは高く、聖なる所に住み、また心砕けて、へりくだる者と共に住み、へりくだる者の霊をいかし、砕ける者の心をいかす。
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
16 わたしはかぎりなく争わない、また絶えず怒らない。霊はわたしから出、いのちの息はわたしがつくったからだ。
For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
17 彼のむさぼりの罪のゆえに、わたしは怒って彼を打ち、わが顔をかくして怒った。しかし彼はなおそむいて、おのが心の道へ行った。
I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
18 わたしは彼の道を見た。わたしは彼をいやし、また彼を導き、慰めをもって彼に報い、悲しめる者のために、くちびるの実を造ろう。
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
19 遠い者にも近い者にも平安あれ、平安あれ、わたしは彼をいやそう」と主は言われる。
I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says the LORD; “and I will heal them.”
20 しかし悪しき者は波の荒い海のようだ。静まることができないで、その水はついに泥と汚物とを出す。
But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
21 わが神は言われる、「よこしまな者には平安がない」と。
“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”
