Daniel 1
1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
ユダの王エホヤキムの治世の第三年にバビロンの王ネブカデネザル、ヱルサレムにきたりて之を攻圍みしに
2 And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.
主ユダの王ヱホヤキムと神の家の器具幾何とをかれの手にわたしたまひければ則ちこれをシナルの地に携へゆきて己の神の家にいたりその器具を己の神の庫に蔵めたり
3 Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his court officials, to bring in some Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—
茲に王寺人の長アシベナズに命じてイスラエルの子孫の中より王の血統の者と貴族たる者幾何を召寄しむ
4 young men without blemish, handsome, gifted in all wisdom, knowledgeable, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace—and to teach them the language and literature of the Chaldeans.
即ち身に疵なく容貌美しくして一切の智慧の道に頴く知識ありて思慮深く王の宮に侍るに足る能幹ある少き者を召寄しめこれにカルデヤ人の文學土と言語とを學ばせんとす
5 The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the king’s service.
是をもて王は命を下して日々に王の用ゐる饌と王の飮む酒とを彼らに與へしめ三年の間かく彼らを養ひ育てしめんとす是その後に彼らをして王の前に立ことを得せしめんとてなり
6 Among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
是等の中にユダの人ダニエル、ハナニヤ、ミシヤエル、アザリヤありしが
7 The chief official gave them new names: To Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
寺人の長かれらに名をあたへてダニエルをベルテシヤザルと名けハナニヤをシヤデラクと名けミシヤエルをメシヤクと名けアザリヤをアベデネゴと名く
8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
然るにダニエルは王の用ゐる饌と王の飮む酒とをもて己の身を汚すまじと心に思ひさだめたれば己の身を汚さざらしめんことを寺人の長に求む
9 Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official,
以前よりヱホバ、ダニエルをして寺人の長の慈悲と寵愛とを蒙らしめたまふ
10 but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”
是において寺人の長ダニエルに言けるは吾主なる王すでに命をくだして汝らの食物と汝らの飮物とを頒たしめたまへば我かれを畏る恐くは彼なんぢらの面の其同輩の少者等と異にして憂色あるを見ん然る時は汝らのために我首王の前に危からん
11 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
寺人の長はメルザル官をしてダニエル、ハナニヤ、ミシヤエル及びアザリヤを監督らせ置たればダニエル之に言けるは
12 “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
請十日の間僕等を験したまへ即ち我らには菜蔬を與へて食せ水を與ヘて飮せよ
13 Then compare our appearances with those of the young men who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”
而して我らの面と王の饌を食ふ少者どもの面とを較べ見汝の視るところにしたがひて僕等を待ひたまへと
14 So he consented to this and tested them for ten days.
是において彼この事を聴いれ十日のあひだ彼らを験しけるが
15 And at the end of ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the king’s food.
十日の後にいたりて見るに王の饌を食へる諸の少者よりも彼らの面は美しくまた肥え膩つきてありければ
16 So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.
メルザル官すなはち彼らの分なる饌と彼らの飮べき洒とを撤きさりて菜蔬をこれに與へたり
17 To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature and wisdom. And Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.
この四人の少者には神知識を得させ諸の文學と智慧に頴からしめたまへりダニエはまた能く各諸の異象と夢兆を暁る
18 Now at the end of the time specified by the king, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.
王かねて命をくだし少者どもを召いるる迄に經べき日を定めおきしがその日數も過たるに因て寺人の長かれらを引てネブカデザルの前にいたりければ
19 And the king spoke with them, and among all the young men he found no one equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they entered the king’s service.
王かれらと言談へり彼ら一切の中にはダニエル、ハナニヤ、ミシヤエル、アザリヤに比ぶ者あらざりければこの四人は王の前に侍れり
20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.
王かれらに諸の事を詢たづね見に彼らは智慧の學においてその全國の博士と法術士に愈ること十倍なり
21 And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.
ダニエルはクロス王の元年までありき
