December 23, 2014

Reading

The Book of the Prophet Isaiah 3: 1-4, 4: 5- 6

3:1	見よ, I send my angel, and he will prepare the way before my face. And presently the Sovereign, whom you seek, and the angel of testimony, whom you desire, will arrive at his temple. 見よ, he approaches, 万軍の主は言われる.
3:2	And who will be able to consider the day of his advent, and who will stand firm in order to see him? For he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller’s herb.
3:3	And he will sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he will purge the sons of Levi, and he will gather them like gold and like silver, and they will offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.
3:4	And the sacrifice of Judah and of Jerusalem will please the Lord, just as in the days of past generations, and as in the ancient years.

4:5	見よ, I will send to you Elijah the prophet, before the arrival of the great and terrible day of the Lord.
4:6	And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with anathema.

Gospel

The Holy Gospel According to Luke 1: 57-66

1:57	Now the time for Elizabeth to give birth arrived, and she brought forth a son.
1:58	And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy with her, and so they congratulated her.
1:59	そして、それは起こった, 8日目に, they arrived to circumcise the boy, and they called him by his father’s name, ゼカリヤ.
1:60	そしてそれに応えて, his mother said: “Not so. その代わり, he shall be called John.”
1:61	そして彼らは彼女に言った, “But there is no one among your relatives who is called by that name.”
1:62	Then they made signs to his father, as to what he wanted him to be called.
1:63	And requesting a writing tablet, 彼が書きました, 言って: "彼の名前はジョンです。"そして彼らは皆疑問に思いました.
1:64	それから, すぐに, 彼の口は開かれた, そして彼の舌は緩んだ, そして彼は話した, 神を祝福する.
1:65	そして恐怖が近隣住民全員を襲った. そして、これらすべての言葉はユダヤの丘陵地帯全体に知れ渡った.
1:66	そしてそれを聞いた人は皆、それを心の中に蓄えました, 言って: 「この子はどうなると思う？」?" 本当に, 主の手が彼とともにあった.