2 Kings 7
1 Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”
エリシヤ言けるは汝らヱホバの言を聽けヱホバかく言たまふ明日の今頃サマリヤの門にて麥粉一セアを一シケルに賣り大麥二セアを一シケルに賣にいたらん
2 But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
時に一人の大將すなはち王のその手に依る者神の人に答へて言けるは由やヱホバ天に窓をひらきたまふも此事あるべけんやエリシヤいひけるは汝は汝の目をもて之を見ん然どこれを食ふことはあらじ
3 Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?
茲に城邑の門の入口に四人の癩病人をりしが互に言けるは我儕なんぞ此に坐して死るを待べけんや
4 If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
我ら若邑にいらんと言ば邑には食物竭てあれば我ら其處に死んもし又此に坐しをらば同く死ん然ば我儕ゆきてスリアの軍勢の所にいたらん彼ら我らを生しおかば我儕生ん若われらを殺すも死るのみなりと
5 So they arose at twilight and went to the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the outskirts of the camp, there was not a man to be found.
すなはちスリア人の陣營にいたらんとて黄昏に起あがりしがスリアの陣營の邊にいたりて視に一人も其處にをる者なし
6 For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”
是より先に主スリアの軍勢をして車の聲馬の聲大軍の聲を聞しめたまひしかば彼ら互に言けるは視よイスラエルの王われらに敵せんとてヘテ人の王等およびエジプトの王等を傭ひきたりて我らを襲はんとすと
7 Thus the Arameans had arisen and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents and horses and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had run for their lives.
すなはち黄昏に起て逃げその天幕と馬と驢馬とを棄て陣營をその儘になしおき生命を全うせんとて逃たり
8 When the lepers reached the edge of the camp, they went into a tent to eat and drink. Then they carried off the silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid them. On returning, they entered another tent, carried off some items from there, and hid them.
かの癩病人等陣營の邊に至りしが遂に一の天幕にいりて食飮し其處より金銀衣服を持さりて往てこれを隱し又きたりて他の天幕にいり其處よりも持さりて往てこれを隱せり
9 Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
かくて彼等互に言けるは我儕のなすところ善らず今日は好消息ある日なるに我儕は默し居る若夜明まで待ば菑害身におよばん然ば來れ往て王の眷屬に告んと
10 So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city, saying, “We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there—not a trace—only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.”
すなはち來りて邑の門を守る者を呼びこれに告て言けるは我儕スリア人の陣營にいたりて視に其處には一人も居る者なく亦人の聲もせず但馬のみ繋ぎてあり驢馬のみ繋ぎてあり天幕は其儘なりと
11 The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported to the king’s household.
是において門を守る者呼はりてこれを王の家の中に報せたれば
12 So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
王夜の中に興いでてその臣下に言けるは我スリア人が我儕になせる所の如何を汝等に示さん彼等はわれらの饑たるを知が故に陣營を去て野に隱る是はイスラエル人邑を出なば生擒て邑に推いらんと言て然せるなり
13 But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”
その臣下の一人對へて言けるは請ふ尚遺されて邑に存れる馬の中五匹を取しめよ我儕人を遣て窺はしめん視よ是等は邑の中に遺れるイスラエルの全群衆のごとし視よ是等は滅び亡たるイスラエルの全群衆のごとくなりと
14 Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”
是において二輛の戰車とその馬を取り王すなはち往て見よといひて人を遣はしてスリアの軍勢の跡を尾しめたれば
15 And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
彼らその跡を尾てヨルダンにいたりしが途には凡てスリア人が狼狽逃る時に棄たる衣服と器具盈りその使者かへりてこれを王に告ければ
16 Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
民いでてスリア人の陣營を掠めたり斯在しかば麥粉一セアは一シケルとなり大麥二セアは一シケルと成るヱホバの言のごとし
17 Now the king had appointed the officer on whose arm he leaned to be in charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king had come to him.
爰に王その手に依ところの彼大將を立て門を司らしめたるに民門にて彼を踐たれば死り即ち神の人が王のおのれに下り來し時に言たる言のごとし
18 It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”
又神の人が王につげて明日の今頃サマリヤの門にて大麥二セアを一シケルに賣り麥粉二セアを一シケルに賣にいたらんと言しごとくに成ぬ
19 And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
彼大將その時に神の人にこたへてヱホバ天に窓をひらきたまふも此事あるべけんやと言たりしかば答へて汝目をもてこれを見べけれどもこれを食ふことはあらじと言たりしが
20 And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
そのごとくになりぬ即ち民門にてかれを踐て死しめたり
