¹ 時に彼はわたしの耳に大声に呼ばわって言われた、「町を罰する者たちよ、おのおの滅ぼす武器をその手に持って近よれ」と。

² 見よ、北に向かう上の門の道から出て来る六人の者があった。おのおのその手に滅ぼす武器を持ち、彼らの中のひとりは亜麻布を着、その腰に物を書く墨つぼをつけていた。彼らははいって来て、青銅の祭壇のかたわらに立った。

³ ここにイスラエルの神の栄光がその座しているケルビムから立ちあがって、宮の敷居にまで至った。そして主は、亜麻布を着て、その腰に物を書く墨つぼをつけている者を呼び、

⁴ 彼に言われた、「町の中、エルサレムの中をめぐり、その中で行われているすべての憎むべきことに対して嘆き悲しむ人々の額にしるしをつけよ」。

⁵ またわたしの聞いている所で他の者に言われた、「彼のあとに従い町をめぐって、撃て。あなたの目は惜しみ見るな。またあわれむな。

⁶ 老若男女をことごとく殺せ。しかし身にしるしのある者には触れるな。まずわたしの聖所から始めよ」。そこで、彼らは宮の前にいた老人から始めた。

⁷ この時、主は彼らに言われた、「宮を汚し、死人で庭を満たせ。行け」。そこで彼らは出て行って、町の中で撃った。

⁸ さて彼らが人々を打ち殺していた時、わたしひとりだけが残されたので、ひれ伏して、叫んで言った、「ああ主なる神よ、あなたがエルサレムの上に怒りを注がれるとき、イスラエルの残りの者を、ことごとく滅ぼされるのですか」。

⁹ 主はわたしに言われた、「イスラエルとユダの家の罪は非常に大きい。国は血で満ち、町は不義で満ちている。彼らは言う、『主はこの地を捨てられた。主は顧みられない』。

¹⁰ それゆえ、わたしの目は彼らを惜しみ見ず、またあわれまない。彼らの行うところを、彼らのこうべに報いる」。

¹¹ 時に、かの亜麻布を着、物を書く墨つぼを腰につけていた人が報告して言った、「わたしはあなたがお命じになったように行いました」。

¹ This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

² It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

³ Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

⁴ He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

⁵ House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

⁶ For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

⁷ Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.

⁸ Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

⁹ Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don't forgive them.

¹⁰ Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.

¹¹ The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

¹² For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

¹³ For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴ For all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,

¹⁵ For every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,

¹⁶ For all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.

¹⁷ The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹⁸ The idols shall utterly pass away.

¹⁹ Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

²⁰ In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

²¹ To go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

²² Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?