Zephaniah 2
1 Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
汝等羞恥を知ぬ民早く自ら内に省みよ
2 before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.
夫日は糠粃の如く過ぎさる 然ば詔言のいまだ行はれざる先ヱホバの烈き怒のいまだ汝等に臨まざる先ヱホバの忿怒の日のいまだ汝等にきたらざるさきに自ら省みるべし
3 Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
すべてヱホバの律法を行ふ斯地の遜るものよ 汝等ヱホバを求め公義を求め謙遜を求めよ 然すれば汝等ヱホバの忿怒の日に或は匿さるることあらん
4 For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.
夫ガザは棄られアシケロンは荒はてアシドドは白晝に逐はらはれエクロンは抜さらるべし
5 Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”
海邊に住る者およびケレテの國民は禍なるかな ベリシテ人の國カナンよ ヱホバの言なんぢらを攻む 我なんぢを滅して住者なきに至らしむべし
6 So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
海邊は必ず牧塲となり牧者の洞および羊の牢そこに在ん
7 The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will attend to them and restore their captives.
此地はユダの家の殘餘れる者に歸せん 彼ら其處にて草飼ひ暮に至ればアシケロンの家に臥ん そは彼らの神ヱホバかれらを顧みその俘囚を歸したまふべければなり
8 “I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
我すでにモアブの嘲弄とアンモンの子孫の罵言を聞けり 彼らはわが民を嘲り自ら誇りて之が境界を侵せしなり
9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
是故に萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神 言たまふ 我は活く 必ずモアブはソドムのごとくになりアンモンの子孫はゴモラのごとくにならん 是は共に蕁麻の蔓延る處となり鹽坑の地となりて長久に荒はつべし 我民の遺れる者かれらを掠めわが國民の餘されたる者かれらを獲ん
10 This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
この事の彼らに臨むはその傲慢による 即ち彼ら萬軍のヱホバの民を嘲りて自ら誇りたればなり
11 The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.
ヱホバは彼等に對ひては畏ろしくましまし地の諸の神や饑し滅したまふなり 諸の國の民おのおのその處より出てヱホバを拜まん
12 “You too, O Cushites, will be slain by My sword.”
エテオピア人よ汝等もまたわが劍にかかりて殺さる
13 And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
ヱホバ北に手を伸てアッスリヤを滅したまはん 亦ニネベを荒して荒野のごとき旱地となしたまはん
14 Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.
而して畜の群もろもろの類の生物その中に伏し鸅鸕および刺猬其柱の頂に住み囀る者の聲窓の内にきこえ荒落たる物閾の上に積り香柏の板の細工露顯になるべし
15 This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
是邑は驕り傲ぶりて安泰に立をり 唯我あり 我の外には誰もなしと心の中に言つつありし者なるが斯も荒はてて畜獣の臥す處となる者かな 此を過る者はみな嘶きて手をふるはん
