Esther 9
1 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
十二月すなはちアダルの月の十三日王の命令と詔書のおこなはるべき時いよいよ近づける時すなはちユダヤ人の敵ユダヤ人を打伏んとまちかまへたりしに却てユダヤ人おのれを惡む者を打ふする事となりける其日に
2 In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
ユダヤ人アハシユエロス王の各州にある己の邑々に相あつまりおのれを害せんとする者どもを殺さんとせり誰も彼らに敵ることを得る者なかりき 其は一切の民ユダヤ人を畏れたればなり
3 And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
諸州の牧伯州牧方伯など凡て王の事を辨理ふ者は皆ユダヤ人をたすけたり 是モルデカイを畏るるによりてたり
4 For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace, and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.
モルデカイは王の家にて大なる者となりその名各州にきこえわたれり斯その人モルデカイはますます大になりゆきぬ
5 The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.
ユダヤ人すなはち刀刃をもてその一切の敵を撃て殺し滅ぼしおのれを惡む者を意のままに爲したり
6 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
ユダヤ人またシユシヤンの城においても五百人を殺しほろぼせり
7 including Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
パルシヤンダタ、ダルポン、アスパタ
8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
ポラタ、アダリヤ、アリダタ
9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.
パルマシタ、アリサイ、アリダイ、ワエザタ
10 They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
これらの者すなはちハンメダタの子ユダヤ人の敵たるハマンの十人の子をも彼ら殺せりされどその所有物には手をかけざりき
11 On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,
シユシヤンの城の内にて殺されし者の數をその日王にまうしあげければ
12 who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
王きさきエステルにいひけるはユダヤ人シユシヤンの城の内にて五百人を殺しまたハマンの十人の子をころせり王のその餘の諸州においては幾何なりしぞや 汝また何か求むるところあるやかならず許さるべし尚何かねがふところあるや必らず成就らるべし
13 Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
エステルいひけるは王もし之を善としたまはば願くはシユシヤンにあるユダヤ人に允して明日も今日の詔旨のごとくなさしめ且ハマンの十人の子を木に懸しめたまへ
14 So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.
王かく爲せと命じシユシヤンにおいて詔旨を出せりマンの十人の子は木に懸らる
15 On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
アダルの月の十四日にシユシヤンのユダヤ人また集まりシユシヤンの内にて三百人をころせり然れどもその所有物には手をかけざりき
16 The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
王の諸州にあるその餘のユダヤ人もまた相あつまり立ておのれの生命を保護しその敵に勝て安んじおのれを惡む者七萬五千人をころせり然れどもその所有には手をかけざりき
17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.
アダルの月の十三日にこの事をおこなひ十四日にやすみてその日に酒宴をなして喜こべり
18 The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.
されどシユシヤンにをるユダヤ人はその十三日と十四日とにあひ集まり十五日にやすみてその日に酒宴をなして喜こべり
19 This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
これによりて村々のユダヤ人すなはち石垣なき邑々にすめる者はアダルの月の十四日をもて喜樂の日酒宴の日吉日となして互に物をやりとりす
20 Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
モルデカイこれらの事を書しるしてアハシユエロス王の諸州にをるユダヤ人に遠きにも近きにも書をおくり
21 to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
アダルの月の十四日と十五日を年々にいはふことを命じ
22 as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
この兩の日にユダヤ人その敵に勝て休みこの月は彼のために憂愁より喜樂にかはり悲哀より吉日にかはりたれば是らの日に酒宴をなして喜びたがひに物をやりとりし貧しき者に施與をなすべしと諭しぬ
23 So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
ここをもてユダヤ人はその已にはじめたるごとくモルデカイがかれらに書おくりしごとく行なひつづけたり
24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.
アガグ人ハンメダタの子ハマンすなはちすべてのユダヤ人の敵たる者ユダヤ人を滅ぼさんと謀りプルすなはち籤を投てこれを滅ぼし絶さんとしたりしが
25 But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
その事王の前に明かになりし時王書をおくりて命じハマンがユダヤ人を害せんとはかりしその惡き謀計をしてハマンのかうべに歸らしめ彼とその子等を木に懸しめたり
26 Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,
このゆゑに此兩の日をそのプルの名にしたがひてプリムとなづけたり斯りしかばこの書のすべての詞によりこの事につきて見たるところ己の遇たるところに依て
27 the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
ユダヤ人あひ定め年々その書るところにしたがひその定めたる時にしたがひてこの兩の日をまもり己とおのれの子孫および凡て已につらなる者これを行ひつづけて廢すること無く
28 These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
この兩の日をもて代々家々州々邑々において必ず記念てまもるべき者となしこれらのプリムの日をしてユダヤ人の中に廢せらるること無らしめまたこの記念をしてその子孫の中に絶ること無らしむ
29 So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
かくてアビハイルの女なる后エステルとユダヤ人モルデカイおほいなる力をもて此プリムの第二の書を書おくりてこれを堅うす
30 And Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes,
すなはちモルデカイ、アハシユエロスの國の百二十七州にある一切のユダヤ人に平和と眞實の言語をもて書をおくり
31 in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.
斷食と悲哀のことにつきてプリムのこれらの日を堅うしてその定めたる時を守らしむすなはちユダヤ人モルデカイと后エステルが曾てかれらに命じたるごとくまたユダヤ人等が曾てみづから己のためおよびおのれの子孫のために定めたるがごとし
32 So Esther’s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.
エステルの語プリムにかかはる是等の事をかたうせり是は書にしるされたり
