イザヤ書 16
1 なんぢら荒野のセラより羔羊をシオンの女の山におくりて國の首にをさむべし
Send ye the lambs of the ruler of the land from Sela', through the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 モアブの女輩はアルノンの津にありてさまよふ鳥のごとく巣をおはれたる雛のごとくなるべし
For it shall be, that, as a fugitive bird, as a chased nest, so shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of Arnon.
3 相謀りて審判をおこなひ亭午にもなんぢの蔭を夜のごとくならしめ驅逐人をかくし遁れきたるものを顯はすなかれ
Bring counsel, execute justice; render like the night thy shadow in the midst of the noonday; conceal the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.
4 わが驅逐人をなんぢとともに居しめ汝モアブの避所となりて之をそこなふ者のまへより脱れしめよ勒索者はうせ害ふものはたえ暴虐者は地より絶れん
Let my outcasts sojourn with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the waster: till ceaseth the extortion, past be the wasting, and vanished be the oppressor out of the land.
5 ひとつの位あはれみをもて堅くたち眞實をおこなふ者そのうヘに坐せん彼ダビデの幕屋にをりて審判をなし公平をもとめて義をおこなふに速し
And there shall be founded through kindness a throne; and there shall sit upon it in truthfulness in the tent of David a judge who seeketh justice, and is quick in righteousness.
6 われらモアブの傲慢をきけりその高ぶること甚だしわれらその誇とたかぶりと忿恚とをきけりその大言はむなし
We have heard of the pride of Moab; [that] he is very proud: of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath, his groundless lies.
7 この故にモアブはモアブの爲になきさけび民みな哭さけぶべしなんぢら必らず甚だしく心をいためてキルハレステの乾葡萄のためになげくべし
Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail; for the strong walls of Kir-charesseth shall ye lament, deeply stricken.
8 そはヘシボンの畑とシブマのぶだうの樹とは凋みおとろヘたりその枝さきにはヤゼルにまでいたりて荒野にはびこりのびて海をわたりしが國々のもろもろの主その美はしき枝ををりたり
For the fields of Cheshbon are withered, the vine of Sibmah —the lords of nations have beaten down its branches, they did reach as far as Ya'zer, into the wilderness did they wander; its tendrils were stretched forth, they passed over the sea.
9 この故にわれヤゼルの哭とひとしくシブマの葡萄の樹のためになかんヘシボンよエレアレよわが涙なんぢをひたさんそは鬨聲なんぢが果物なんぢが收穫の實のうへにおちきたればなり
Therefore will I weep, when weeping for Ya'zer, for the vine of Sibmah: I will moisten thee richly with my tears, O Cheshbon, and El'aleh; for over [the gathering of] thy summer fruits and over thy harvest the battle-cry is fallen.
10 欣喜とたのしみとは土肥たる畑より取さられ葡萄園には謳ふことなく歡呼ばふことなく酒榨にはふみて酒をしぼるものなし我そのよろこびたつる聲をやめしめたり
And [thus] are taken away joy and gladness out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards shall be no singing, shall be no joyful shout: in the presses shall the treader not tread out wine; I have stopped the harvest-call.
11 このゆゑにわが心腸はモアブの故をもて琴のごとく鳴ひびきキルハレスの故をもてわが衷もまた然り
Therefore my bowels shall groan for Moab like a harp, and my inward parts for Kir-charess.
12 モアブは高處にいでて倦つかれその聖所にきたりて祈るべけれど驗あらじ
And it shall come to pass, that it shall be seen that Moab is weary on the high-places; and he will come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not accomplish [aught].
13 こはヱホバが曩にモアブに就てかたりたまへる聖言なり
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab in former times.
14 されど今ヱホバかたりて言たまはくモアブの榮はその大なる群衆とともに傭人の期にひとしく三年のうちに恥かしめをうけ遺れる者はなはだ少なくして力なからん
But now hath the Lord spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired laborer, shall the glory of Moab be rendered mean with all this [his] great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and inconsiderable.
