イザヤ書 7
1 ウジャの子ヨタムその子ユダヤ王アハズのときアラムの王レヂンとレマリヤの子イスラエル王ペカと上りきたりてヱルサレムを攻しがつひに勝ことあたはざりき
Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city.
2 ここにアラムとエフライムと結合なりたりとダビデの家につぐる者ありければ王のこころと民の心とは林木の風にうごかさるるが如くに動けり
When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
3 その時ヱホバ、イザヤに言たまひけるは今なんぢと汝の子シヤルヤシユブと共にいでて布をさらす野の大路のかたはらなる上池の樋口にゆきてアハズを迎へ
Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,
4 これに告べしなんぢ謹みて静かなれ アラムのレヂン及びレマリャの子はげしく怒るとも二の燼餘りたる煙れる片柴のごとし懼るるなかれ心をよわくするなかれ
and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.
5 アラム、エフライム及びレマリヤの子なんぢにむかひて惡き謀ごとを企てていふ
For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying:
6 われらユダに攻上りて之をおびやかし我儕のためにこれを破りとりタビエルの子をその中にたてて王とせんと
‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.’
7 されど主ヱホバいひたまはくこの事おこなはれずまた成ことなし
But this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘It will not arise; it will not happen.
8 アラムの首はダマスコ、ダマスコの首はレヂンなり エフライムは六十五年のうちに敗れて國をなさざるべし
For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.
9 またエフライムの首はサマリヤ、サマリヤの首はレマリヤの子なり 若なんぢら信ぜずばかならず立ことを得じと
The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.’”
10 ヱホバ再びアハズに告ていひたまはく
Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying,
“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.” (Sheol h7585)
12 アハズいひけるは我これを求めじ 我はヱホバを試むることをせざるべし
But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask; I will not test the LORD.”
13 イザヤいひけるはダビデのいへよ請なんぢら聞 なんぢら人をわづらはしこれを小事として亦わが神をも煩はさんとするか
Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?
14 この故に主みづから一の豫兆をなんぢらに賜ふべし 視よをとめ孕みて子をうまんその名をインマヌエルと稱ふべし
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
15 かれ惡をすて善をえらぶことを知 ころほひにいたりて乳酥と蜂蜜とをくらはん
By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
16 そはこの子いまだ惡をすて善をえらぶことを知ざるさきになんぢが忌きらふ兩の王の地はすてらるべし
For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
17 ヱホバはエフライムがユダを離れし時よりこのかた臨みしことなき日を汝となんぢの民となんぢの父の家とにのぞませ給はん是アツスリヤの王なり
The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”
18 其日ヱホバ、エジプトなる河々のほとりの蠅をまねきアツスリヤの地の蜂をよびたまはん
On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
19 皆きたりて荒たるたに岩穴すべての荊棘すべての牧場のうヘに止まるべし
And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes.
20 その日主はかはの外ふより雇へるアツスリヤの王を剃刀として首と足の毛とを剃たまはんまた髯をも除きたまふべし
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates —the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
21 その日人わかき牝犢ひとつと羊ふたつとを飼をらん
On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
22 その出すところの乳おほきによりて乳酥をくらふことを得んすべて國のうちに遺れるものは乳酥と蜂蜜とをくらふべし
and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.
23 その日千株に銀一千の價をえたる葡萄ありし處もことごとく荊と棘はえいづべし
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
24 荊とおどろと地にあまねきがゆゑに人々矢と弓とをもて彼處にゆくなり
Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
25 鋤をもて掘たがへしたる山々もいばらと棘のために人おそれてその中にゆくことを得じ その地はただ牛をはなち羊にふましむる處とならん
For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
