Judges 6
1 Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,
イスラエルの子孫またヱホバの目のまへに惡を行ひたればヱホバ七年の間之をミデアン人の手に付したまふ
2 and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
ミデアン人の手イスラエルにかてりイスラエルの子孫はミデアン人の故をもて山にある窟と洞穴と要害とをおのれのために造れり
3 Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
イスラエル人蒔種してありける時しもミデアン人アマレキ人及び東方の民上り來りて押寄せ
4 encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys.
イスラエル人に向ひて陣を取り地の産物を荒してガザにまで至りイスラエルのうちに生命を維ぐべき物を遺さず羊も驢馬も遺ざりき
5 For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
夫この衆人は家畜と天幕を携へ上り蝗蟲の如くに數多く來れりその人と駱駝は數ふるに勝ず彼ら國を荒さんとて入きたる
6 Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.
かかりしかばイスラエルはミデアン人のために大いに衰へイスラエルの子孫ヱホバに呼れり
7 Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,
イスラエルの子孫ミデアン人の故をもてヱホバに呼はりしかば
8 He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
ヱホバひとりの預言者をイスラエルの子孫に遣りて言はしめたまひけるはイスラエルの神ヱホバ斯くいひたまふ我かつて汝らをエジプトより上らせ汝らを奴隸たるの家より出し
9 I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.
エジプト人の手およびすべて汝らを虐ぐるものの手より汝らを拯ひいだし汝らの前より彼らを追ひはらひてその邦土を汝らに與へたり
10 And I said to you: ‘I am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you did not obey Me.”
我また汝らに言り我は汝らの神ヱホバなり汝らが住ひ居るアモリ人の國の神を懼るるなかれとしかるに汝らは我が聲に從はざりき
11 Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
茲にヱホバの使者來りてアビエゼル人ヨアシの所有なるオフラの橡の樹のしたに坐す時にヨアシの子ギデオン、ミデアン人に奪はれざらんために酒榨のなかに麥を打ち居たりしが
12 And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”
ヱホバの使之に現れて剛勇丈夫よヱホバ汝とともに在すといひたれば
13 “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
ギデオン之にいひけるはああ吾が主よヱホバ我らと偕にいまさばなどてこれらのことわれらの上に及びたるやわれらの先祖がヱホバは我らをエジプトより上らしめたまひしにあらずやといひて我らに告たりしその諸の不思議なる行爲は何處にあるや今はヱホバわれらを棄てミデアン人の手に付したまへり
14 The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”
ヱホバ之を顧みていひたまひけるは汝此汝の力をもて行きミデアン人の手よりイスラエルを拯ひいだすべし我汝を遣すにあらずや
15 “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
ギデオン之にいひけるはああ主よ我何をもてかイスラエルを拯ふべき視よわが家はマナセのうちの最も弱きもの我はまた父の家の最も卑賤きものなり
16 “Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied, “and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man.”
ヱホバ之にいひたまひけるは我かならず汝とともに在ん汝は一人を撃がごとくにミデアン人を撃つことを得ん
17 Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.
ギデオン之にいひけるは我もし汝のまへに恩を蒙るならば請ふ我と語る者の汝なる證據を見せたまへ
18 Please do not depart from this place until I return to You. Let me bring my offering and set it before You.” And the LORD said, “I will stay until you return.”
ねがはくは我復び汝に來りわが祭物をたづさへて之を汝のまへに供ふるまでここを去たまふなかれ彼いひたまひけるは我汝の還るまで待つべし
19 So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.
ギデオンすなはち往て山羊の羔を調へ粉一エパをもて無酵パンをつくり肉を筺にいれ羹を壺に盛り橡樹の下にもち出て之を供へたれば
20 And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.
神の使之にいひたまひけるは肉と無酵パンをとりて此巖のうへに置き之に羹を斟げとすなはちそのごとくに行ふ
21 Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
ヱホバの使手にもてる杖の末端を出して肉と無酵パンに觸れたりしかば巖より火燃えあがり肉と無酵パンを燒き盡せりかくてヱホバの使去てその目に見ずなりぬ
22 When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he said, “Oh no, Lord GOD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”
ギデオン是において彼がヱホバの使者なりしを覺りギデオンいひけるはああ神ヱホバよ我面を合せてヱホバの使者を見たれば將如何せん
23 But the LORD said to him, “Peace be with you. Do not be afraid, for you will not die.”
ヱホバ之にいひたまひけるは心安かれ怖るる勿れ汝死ぬることあらじ
24 So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
ここにおいてギデオン彼所にヱホバのために祭壇を築き之をヱホバシヤロムと名けたり是は今日に至るまでアビエゼル人のオフラに存る
25 On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
其夜ヱホバ、ギデオンにいひ給ひけるは汝の父の少き牡牛および七歳なる第二の牛を取り汝の父のもてるバアルの祭壇を毀ち其上なるアシラの像を斫り仆し
26 Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”
汝の神ヱホバのためにこの堡砦の頂において次序をただしくし祭壇を築き第二の牛を取りて汝が斫り倒せるアシラの木をもて燔祭を供ぐべし
27 So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.
ギデオンすなはちその僕十人を携へてヱホバのいひたまひしごとく行へりされど父の家のものどもおよび邑の人を怖れたれば晝之をなすことを得ず夜に入りて之を爲り
28 When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.
邑の衆朝興出て視にバアルの祭壇は摧け其の上なるアシラの像は斫仆されて居り新に築る祭壇に第二の牛の供へてありしかば
29 “Who did this?” they said to one another. And after they had investigated thoroughly, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”
たがひに此は誰が所爲ぞやと言ひつつ尋ね問ひけるに此はヨアシの子ギデオンの所爲なりといふものありたれば
30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”
邑の人々ヨアシにむかひ汝の子を曳き出して死なしめよそは彼バアルの祭壇を摧き其上に在しアシラの像を斫仆したればなりといふ
31 But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar.”
ヨアシおのれの周圍に立るすべてのものにいひけるは汝らはバアルの爲に爭論ふや汝らは之を救はんとするや之が爲に爭論ふ者は朝の中に死べしバアルもし神ならば人其祭壇を摧きたれば自ら爭論ふ可なりと
32 So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.
是をもて人衆ギデオンその祭壇を摧きたればバアル自ら之といひあらそはんといひて此日かれをヱルバアル（バアルいひあらそはん）と呼なせり
33 Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
茲にミデアン人アマレク人および東方の民相集まりて河を濟りヱズレルの谷に陣を取しが
34 So the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, who blew the ram’s horn and rallied the Abiezrites behind him.
ヱホバの靈ギデオンに臨みてギデオン箛を吹たればアビエゼル人集りて之に從ふ
35 Calling them to arms, Gideon sent messengers throughout Manasseh, as well as Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, so that they came up to meet him.
ギデオン徧くマナセに使者を遣りしかばマナセ人また集りて之に從ふ彼またアセル、ゼブルン及びナフタリに使者を遣りしにその人々も上りて之を迎ふ
36 Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said,
ギデオン神にいひけるは汝かつていひたまひしごとくわが手をもてイスラエルを救はんとしたまはば
37 then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
視よ我一箇の羊の毛を禾塲におかん露もし羊毛にのみおきて地はすべて燥きをらば我之れによりて汝がかつて言たまひし如く吾が手をもてイスラエルを救ひたまふを知んと
38 And that is what happened. When Gideon arose the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water.
すなはち斯ありぬ彼明る朝早く興きいで羊毛をかき寄てその毛より露を搾りしに鉢に滿つるほどの水いできたる
39 Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew.”
ギデオン神にいひけるは我にむかひて怒を發したまふなかれ我をしていま一回いはしめたまへねがはくは我をして羊の毛をもていま一回試さしめたまへねがはくは羊毛のみを燥して地には悉く露あらしめたまへと
40 And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.
その夜神かくの如くに爲したまふすなはち羊毛のみ燥きて地には凡て露ありき
